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Ball Detection for Robotic Soccer: A Real-Time RGB-D Approach

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Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 418))

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The robotic football competition has encouraged the participants to develop new ways of solving different problems in order to succeed in the competition. This article shows a different approach to the ball detection and recognition by the robot using a Kinect System. It has enhanced the capabilities of the depth camera in detecting and recognizing the ball during the football match. This is important because it is possible to avoid the noise that the RGB cameras are subject to for example lighting issues.

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  1. INESC TEC (formerly INESC PORTO) - Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    André Morais & Pedro Costa

  2. INESC TEC (formerly INESC PORTO) - Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    José Lima

  3. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus Sta Apolónia, 5301-857, Bragança, Portugal

    José Lima

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  1. Info Syst Dept;Campus de Azurém, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    António Paulo Moreira

  3. Instituto Superior Tecnico - Torre Norte, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Pedro U. Lima

  4. Engineering Dept., E. Ada Byron, Univ of Zaragoza, Computer & Systems, Zaragoza, Spain

    Luis Montano

  5. Automatic Control and Systems Eng. Dept., University of Malaga, Superior Technical, Málaga, Spain

    Victor Muñoz-Martinez

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Morais, A., Costa, P., Lima, J. (2016). Ball Detection for Robotic Soccer: A Real-Time RGB-D Approach. In: Reis, L., Moreira, A., Lima, P., Montano, L., Muñoz-Martinez, V. (eds) Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 418. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27149-1_44

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