CVB.Net 15.0
SearchParameters Struct Reference

Definition of search parameters. Search parameters strongly influence the search results. Likewise, they have great influence on the timing of a search operation. More...

Properties

double HypothesesThreshold [get, set]
 Minimum feature score for hypotheses generation. More...
 
int DerivativePatchSize [get, set]
 Smoothing area in pixels for gradient and normal calculation. More...
 
double IndifferentRadius [get, set]
 Fraction of template size which accounts for a single object. More...
 
int PartsToFind [get, set]
 Maximum number of objects to find. More...
 
bool RawResultsOnly [get, set]
 Raw results flag. More...
 
int ICPShrink [get, set]
 Subsample factor for ICP. More...
 
int ICPMaxIterations [get, set]
 Maximum number of iterations of the ICP algorithm. More...
 
double PrecisionThreshold [get, set]
 Precision threshold. More...
 
double MinCoverage [get, set]
 Minimum coverage. More...
 
double MaxOcclusion [get, set]
 Maximum occlusion. More...
 
double MaxInconsistency [get, set]
 Maximum inconsistency. More...
 
double MinScore [get, set]
 Minimum score. More...
 
static SearchParameters Default [get]
 Default search parameters.
 

Detailed Description

Definition of search parameters. Search parameters strongly influence the search results. Likewise, they have great influence on the timing of a search operation.

Property Documentation

◆ DerivativePatchSize

int DerivativePatchSize
getset

Smoothing area in pixels for gradient and normal calculation.

This value controls which local environment in the depth image is used to calculate gradients and normals. Minimum is 3. Larger values result in a smoothing of the depth image. This value should be odd. Typical values are in the range 3..9.

◆ HypothesesThreshold

double HypothesesThreshold
getset

Minimum feature score for hypotheses generation.

This value controls which areas of the depth image are used as candidates for closer examination. The feature score is calculated from the correspondences of gradients and normals between all models and the actual point cloud data.The threshold should be chosen so that on the one hand all object candidates are found, on the other hand as few false candidates as possible are generated. Typical values are in the range between 0.9 ... 1.0. Disturbances in the point cloud, missing or spurious data may make it necessary to reduce the value. The minimum value is 0.5. To find a usable threshold it is recommended to set the flag RawResultsOnly.

◆ ICPMaxIterations

int ICPMaxIterations
getset

Maximum number of iterations of the ICP algorithm.

This value specifies the maximum number of iterations of the ICP algorithm. Increasing the value may increase the accuracy of the result, while possibly increasing the processing time. A typical value is 10. The minimum value is 1.

◆ ICPShrink

int ICPShrink
getset

Subsample factor for ICP.

This value specifies the factor by which the area of a found candidate is reduced before the exact position of the object is determined by means of an ICP algorithm. The minimum allowed value of 1 means no reduction (highest accuracy). With increasing reduction, the processing speed increases, but at the same time the accuracy of the results also decrease. Typical values are in a range 1..4.

◆ IndifferentRadius

double IndifferentRadius
getset

Fraction of template size which accounts for a single object.

This value specifies within which vicinity of a found candidate no further candidates are searched for. The value 1 indicates the largest extent of the learned object. For elongated objects that are close to each other, a smaller value may have to be selected. The minimum value is 0.5.

◆ MaxInconsistency

double MaxInconsistency
getset

Maximum inconsistency.

This value is a threshold (0..1) that specifies the maximum allowed part of the model view to be inconsistent with the point cloud data in order for the hit to be counted. Inconsistency is defined to be point cloud data which is beyond the model. A typical value may be 0.2. It is influenced by PrecisionThreshold.

◆ MaxOcclusion

double MaxOcclusion
getset

Maximum occlusion.

This value is a threshold (0..1) that specifies the maximum allowed part of the model view which is occluded by the point cloud data in order for the hit to be counted. Occlusion is defined to be point cloud data lying between the model and the sensor. A typical value may be 0.2. It is influenced by PrecisionThreshold.

◆ MinCoverage

double MinCoverage
getset

Minimum coverage.

This value is a threshold(0..1) that specifies the minimum required coverage of the model view by the point cloud data in order for the hit to be counted. A typical value may be 0.8. It is influenced by PrecisionThreshold.

◆ MinScore

double MinScore
getset

Minimum score.

This value is a threshold (0..1) that determines whether the candidate is counted as a hit. For this, a hash similarity score between final model view and point cloud data must exceed this limit. A typical value may be 0.8.

◆ PartsToFind

int PartsToFind
getset

Maximum number of objects to find.

This value specifies the maximum number of objects to be detected. A value of zero means that all objects should be found.

◆ PrecisionThreshold

double PrecisionThreshold
getset

Precision threshold.

The calculation of the result score is based on deviations between the CAD model and the point cloud data. This value determines which deviation is considered tolerable, inconsistent or occlusion. The value depends on the quality of the point cloud data. A typical value is 2 mm, the minimum allowed value is 0.

◆ RawResultsOnly

bool RawResultsOnly
getset

Raw results flag.

If this flag is set, candidate locations are considered as hits without further investigation of these candidates. In this case, only parameters HypothesesThreshold, PartsToFind and MinScore are decisive for finding objects. If found candidates are indeed true object hits, the result values for SearchResult.Position, SearchResult.RotationVector and SearchResult.Theta are only rough in a sense, that no fine tuning (ICP) takes place.

Also, in this case the reported SearchResult.Score values coincide with the feature scores, which makes it possible to determine a useful value for HypothesesThreshold.