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Safe moving is a basic ability for a mobile robot, and it is beneficial for the robot to avoid the collisions with the environment if it knows the boundaries between the obstacles and free space. In this paper, a contour detection approach is presented. The input image is firstly processed by a Gaussian filter and Sobel edge detector. After it is processed by connectivity-based boundaries extraction, the result is finalized, aided by Canny edge map. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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Ai, K., Cao, Z., Liu, X., Zhou, C., Yang, Y. (2014). A Contour Detection Approach for Mobile Robot. In: Zhang, X., Liu, H., Chen, Z., Wang, N. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13963-0_27
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