yaricom/robotvisiontracker

An algorithm that can detect and track the object of interest (OOI) in video frames.

Overview

Firm A is building a next generation robotics platform that will change the game in field service operations including asset inspection and repair. Firm A has defined a host of high value use cases and applications across industry that will support field engineers and other industrial workers be more productive and, more importantly, perform their jobs safely.

For one example high value use case, the company would like for a robot to detect and track a freight railcar brake release handle, the object of interest (OOI), so that the robot can grasp the handle.

The task is to develop an algorithm that can detect and track the OOI in video frames. The OOI is typically made of 0.5 inch round steel rod, bent to form a handle.

It was done as part of crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder: Contest: Robot Vision Tracker and Contest: Robot Vision Tracker Extended

Special conditions

Additional requirement was to create crafted algorithm which may be compilled and runned in the AWS runner with specified limitation:

• Time limit is 60 minutes per test case for training and 3 minutes for testing and the memory limit is 4096MB.
• There is no explicit code size limit. The implicit source code size limit is around 1 MB (it is not advisable to submit codes of size close to that or larger).
• The compilation time limit is 60 seconds. You can find information about compilers that we use, compilation options and processing server specifications here.

The main algorithm runner implemented in: RobotVisionTracker.h and RobotVisionTrackerX.h