Towards Co-Evaluation of Cameras HDR and Algorithms for Industrial-Grade 6DoF Pose Estimation

Agastya Kalra, Guy Stoppi, Dmitrii Marin, Vage Taamazyan, Aarrushi Shandilya, Rishav Agarwal, Anton Boykov, Tze Hao Chong, Michael Stark; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 22691-22701

6DoF Pose estimation has been gaining increased importance in vision for over a decade however it does not yet meet the reliability and accuracy standards for mass deployment in industrial robotics. To this effect we present the Industrial Plenoptic Dataset (IPD): the first dataset for the co-evaluation of cameras HDR and algorithms targeted at reliable high-accuracy industrial automation. Specifically we capture 2300 physical scenes of 20 industrial parts covering a 1mx1mx0.5m working volume resulting in over 100000 distinct object views. Each scene is captured with 13 well-calibrated multi-modal cameras including polarization and high-resolution structured light. In terms of lighting we capture each scene at 4 exposures and in 3 challenging lighting conditions ranging from 100 lux to 100000 lux. We also present validate and analyze robot consistency an evaluation method targeted at scalable high accuracy evaluation. We hope that vision systems that succeed on this dataset will have direct industry impact. The dataset and evaluation code are available at https://github.com/intrinsic-ai/ipd.