UAV Target-Selection: 3D Pointing Interface System for Large-Scale Environment

Anna C.S. Medeiros, Photchara Ratsamee, Jason Orlosky, Yuki Uranishi, Manabu Higashida, Haruo Takemura

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Abstract

This paper presents a 3D pointing interface application to signal a UAV's target in a large-scale environment. This system enables UAVs equipped with a monocular camera to determine which window of a building is selected by a human user in large-scale indoor or outdoor environments. The 3D pointing interface consists of three parts: YOLO, OpenPose, and ORB-SLAM. YOLO detects the target objects, e.g., windows, OpenPose extracts the user pose, and ORB-SLAM builds a scale-dependent 3D map, a set of 3D sparse feature points. To obtain the visual scale, it performs a calibration step with the user standing in front of the UAV at a certain distance. We detail how we chose the gesture, localize and detect objects, and transform between coordinate systems. The real-world experiment results showed that the 3D pointing interface obtained a 0.73 F1-score average and a 0.58 F1-Score at the maximum distance of 25 meters between UAV and building.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3963-3969
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781728190778
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021 - Xi'an, China
Duration: May 30 2021Jun 5 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Volume2021-May
ISSN (Print)1050-4729

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period5/30/216/5/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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