Groundtruth system for underwater benchmarking

Martins, Alfredo; Dias, André; Silva, Hugo Miguel; Almeida, José Miguel; Gonçalves, Pedro; Lopes, Flávio; Faria, André; Ribeiro, João Pedro; Silva, Eduardo

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In this paper a vision based groundtruth system for underwater applications is presented. The proposed system as an external validation perception and localization mechanism for underwater trials in the INESC TEC / ISEP underwater robotics test tank. It is comprised by a stereo camera pair with external synchronization and a image processing and data recording host computer. The cameras are disposed in a rigid baseline calibrated using scenario key points. Two target detection algorithms were tested and their results are discussed. One is based on template matching techniques allowing the tracking of arbitrary targets without particular markers and the other on color segmentation with the target vehicle equipped with light markers. Also an example trajectory of a small ROV motion in the task is also presented.