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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Point Cloud Hand-Object Segmentation Using Multimodal Imaging with Thermal and Color Data for Safe Robotic Object Handover.

Yan Zhang, Steffen Müller, Benedict Stephan, Horst-Michael Gross, Gunther Notni

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Yan ZhangGroup for Quality Assurance and Industrial Image Processing, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3784-1386
Steffen MüllerNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.
Benedict StephanNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5445-3935
Horst-Michael GrossNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.
Gunther NotniGroup for Quality Assurance and Industrial Image Processing, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany.

Funding

Freistaat Thüringen aus Mitteln des Europäischen Sozialfonds 2018 FGR 0097Thüringer Aufbaubank 2018 FGR 0097Thüringer Zentrum für Maschinenbau 2018 FGR 0097
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents an application of neural networks operating on multimodal 3D data (3D point cloud, RGB, thermal) to effectively and precisely segment human hands and objects held in hand to realize a safe human-robot object handover. We discuss the problems encountered in building a multimodal sensor system, while the focus is on the calibration and alignment of a set of cameras including RGB, thermal, and NIR cameras. We propose the use of a copper-plastic chessboard calibration target with an internal active light source (near-infrared and visible light). By brief heating, the calibration target could be simultaneously and legibly captured by all cameras. Based on the multimodal dataset captured by our sensor system, PointNet, PointNet++, and RandLA-Net are utilized to verify the effectiveness of applying multimodal point cloud data for hand-object segmentation. These networks were trained on various data modes (XYZ, XYZ-T, XYZ-RGB, and XYZ-RGB-T). The experimental results show a significant improvement in the segmentation performance of XYZ-RGB-T (mean Intersection over Union: 82.8% by RandLA-Net) compared with the other three modes (77.3% by XYZ-RGB, 35.7% by XYZ-T, 35.7% by XYZ), in which it is worth mentioning that the Intersection over Union for the single class of hand achieves 92.6%.

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RoboticsRobotic Surgical ProceduresAlgorithmsHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMultimodal Imagingdeep neural networkhand segmentationmultimodal imagingpoint cloud segmentationthermal

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PMID34451117
PMCPMC8402345

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