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In the last chapter we discussed the acquisition and processing of images. We learnt that images are simply large arrays of pixel values but for robotic applications images have too much data and not enough information. We need to be able to answer pithy questions such as what is the pose of the object? what type of object is it? how fast is it moving? how fast am I moving? and so on. The answers to such questions are measurements obtained from the image and which we call image features. Features are the gist of the scene and the raw material that we need for robot control.
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Corke, P. (2011). Image Feature Extraction. In: Robotics, Vision and Control. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20144-8_13
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