Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a method to align two sequences under certain constraints. For instance, two trajectories that are very similar but one of them performed in a longer time. The alignment should be is such way that minimizes the distance between these two sequences. Here I have done DTW between two-time series with python. I found a […]
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Gaussian Mixture Regression is basically Multivariate normal distribution with Conditional distribution. The more about the theory could be found at [1], [2], [3], [4]. For this work, I have added the functionality of adding Gaussian Mixture Regression to this project on the GitHub by forking the main project, my forked project can be download at here Github The main changes
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I found a really good code at GitHub for fitting a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) with Expectation Maximization (EM) for ROS. There are so many parameters that you can change. Some of the most important ones are:
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// minimum number of gaussians #define PARAM_NAME_GAUSSIAN_COUNT_MIN "gaussian_count_min" #define PARAM_DEFAULT_GAUSSIAN_COUNT_MIN 1 // search will terminate when the gaussian count reaches this #define PARAM_NAME_GAUSSIAN_COUNT_MAX "gaussian_count_max" #define PARAM_DEFAULT_GAUSSIAN_COUNT_MAX 10 |
To find the optimal number of components, it uses Bayesian information criterion (BIC). There are other methods to find
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Eigen is a great tool for matrix operations, here I found a small piece of code in Github that enables you to generate multivariate normal distribution samples using C++11 and Eigen library. The below is an example:
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#include <fstream> #include <Eigen/Eigen> #include <Eigen/Core> #include <Eigen/Dense> #include "eigenmvn.h" int main(int argc, char ** argv) { //number of columns const uint n_cols = 2; // number of rows const uint n_rows = 5000; Eigen::Matrix<float, Eigen::Dynamic, Eigen::Dynamic> total_gaussian_data_eigen, first_gaussian_data_eigen,second_gaussian_data_eigen; first_gaussian_data_eigen.setZero(n_rows,n_cols); second_gaussian_data_eigen.setZero(n_rows,n_cols); //2*n_rows since we want to concat first and second and put it in this matrix total_gaussian_data_eigen.setZero(2*n_rows,n_cols); Eigen::Vector2f mean; Eigen::Matrix2f covar; float theta; mean << 0,0; // Set the mean /* our covar matrix: |10 0| |0 1| */ covar <<10,0,0,1; //first gaussian Eigen::EigenMultivariateNormal<float> normX_solver1(mean,covar); first_gaussian_data_eigen<< normX_solver1.samples(n_rows).transpose() ; //secodn gaussian mean << 4,4; // Set the mean // Create a covariance matrix rotated clockwise by theta theta=M_PI/4.0; covar=genCovar(1,4,theta); Eigen::EigenMultivariateNormal<float> normX_solver2(mean,covar); second_gaussian_data_eigen<<normX_solver2.samples(n_rows).transpose() ; //concating two gaussians total_gaussian_data_eigen<<first_gaussian_data_eigen,second_gaussian_data_eigen; //writing data into output in csv format std::cout<<"x,y\n"; for (uint i = 0; i < total_gaussian_data_eigen.rows(); i++) { for (uint h = 0; h < n_cols-1; h++) { std::cout<<total_gaussian_data_eigen(i,h); std::cout<<","; } std::cout<<total_gaussian_data_eigen(i,n_cols-1); std::cout<<std::endl; } } |
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In this part, I trained an SVM over images of “face” or “not face” (36 × 36 pixels), using HOG features. I used VLFeat library for both HOG and the SVM. Example of face images: Example of nonface images: I divided the dataset into a training and a test set (80% and 20% respectively) and computed the HOG
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This work is the second part of my master thesis (part I). In this part, I developed an algorithm for 2D pose estimation of the human body. To do this, I created a software with QT that could generate 2D contours representing human body. Then I send these contours for evaluation to CNS(Contrast Normalized Sobel) [1]
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This is the part I of the work that I did for my master thesis (part II). In this work first, I computed HOG (Histogram of oriented gradients) on my images and then sent the computed histogram to a linear SVM (support vector machine). The SVM was trained with human and non-human images. The output of the classifier was
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Most of the wheeled robots in ROS use move_base to move the robot. move_base geometry model is based on differential drive which basically transforms a velocity command (twist message) into a command for rotating the left and the right wheels at a different speed which enable the car to turn into the right or left or goes straight. But cars
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Two wheels differential drive robot (with two caster wheels). List of installed sensors: • Velodyne VLP-16. • Velodyne HDL-32E. • Hokuyo Laser scanner. • IMU. • Microsoft Kinect/Asus Xtion Pro. • RGB Camera. You can manually control the robot with Joystick controller for mapping robot environment. Autonomous navigation is possible by setting goal pose.
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Installation Please visit the official documentation page but do not forget to add the permission problem:
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sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER |
Docker image If the image doesn’t exist it will pull it from hub.docker.com Basically, it runs the pull command beforehand:
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docker pull <image_name:tag_name> |
for instance, to install Ubuntu 20.04
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docker pull ubuntu:20.04 |
to check the version, just run:
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lsb_release -a |
To see available
