Object Detection

[co-li]

Rationale

For the URC 2024, the Autonomous Navigation Challenge requires the capability of detecting two objects: a orange rubber mallet and a 1 L wide mouth water bottle of unspecified color/markings.

Required Actions

• Research object detection algorithms
• Demonstrate a proof of concept for detecting the objects
• Integrate with ROS

[co-li]

Object detection for Shortrange AI

[harshshrotriya]

Sprint 1 (Monday Oct 23):

• Take multiple photos of mallet and waterbottle for data set
• Find proper annotation tool
• Annotate images and make dataset
• Resize, normalize, and augment the dataset for improved training