A Novel Weakly-supervised approach for RGB-D-based Nuclear Waste Object Detection and Categorization

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Sun, Li
Zhao, Cheng
Yan, Zhi
Liu, Pengcheng
Duckett, Tom
Stolkin, Rustam
Date
2018-12-19Acceptance date
2018
Type
Article
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IEEE
ISSN
1530-437X
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This paper addresses the problem of RGBD-based detection and categorization of waste objects for nuclear decommissioning. To enable autonomous robotic manipulation for nuclear decommissioning, nuclear waste objects must be detected and categorized. However, as a novel industrial application, large amounts of annotated waste object data are currently unavailable. To overcome this problem, we propose a weakly-supervised learning approach which is able to learn a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) from unlabelled RGBD videos while requiring very few annotations. The proposed method also has the potential to be applied to other household or industrial applications. We evaluate our approach on the Washington RGBD object recognition benchmark, achieving the state-of-the-art performance among semi-supervised methods. More importantly, we introduce a novel dataset, i.e. Birmingham nuclear waste simulants dataset, and evaluate our proposed approach on this novel industrial object recognition challenge. We further propose a complete real-time pipeline for RGBD-based detection and categorization of nuclear waste simulants. Our weakly-supervised approach has demonstrated to be highly effective in solving a novel RGB-D object detection and recognition application with limited human annotations.
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IEEE Sensors Journal;
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Sun, L., Zhao, C., Yan, Z., Liu, P., Duckett, T. and Stolkin, R., 2018. A Novel Weakly-supervised approach for RGB-D-based Nuclear Waste Object Detection and Categorization. IEEE Sensors Journal. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2888815
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Article published in IEEE Sensors Journal, available at https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2888815
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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