Title
Toward real-time grocery detection for the visually impaired
Abstract
We present a study on grocery detection using our object detection system, ShelfScanner, which seeks to allow a visually impaired user to shop at a grocery store without additional human assistance. ShelfScanner allows online detection of items on a shopping list, in video streams in which some or all items could appear simultaneously. To deal with the scale of the object detection task, the system leverages the approximate planarity of grocery store shelves to build a mosaic in real time using an optical flow algorithm. The system is then free to use any object detection algorithm without incurring a loss of data due to processing time. For purposes of speed we use a multiclass naive-Bayes classifier inspired by NIMBLE, which is trained on enhanced SURF descriptors extracted from images in the GroZi-120 dataset. It is then used to compute per-class probability distributions on video keypoints for final classification. Our results suggest ShelfScanner could be useful in cases where high-quality training data is available.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543576
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
bayes methods,computer vision,image classification,image segmentation,object detection,optimisation,real-time systems,video signal processing,video streaming,bayes classifier,shelfscanner,human assistance,object detection system,online detection,optical flow algorithm,real-time grocery detection,video streams,probability distribution,distributed computing,optical flow,real time,naive bayes classifier,real time systems,heating,data mining,pixel,training data,feature extraction
Object detection,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Feature extraction,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Classifier (linguistics),Contextual image classification,Optical flow,Bayes classifier
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010
1
2160-7508
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7029-7
23
1.00
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tess Winlock1231.00
Eric M. Christiansen2231.00
Serge J. Belongie3125121010.13