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Exteme Underwater Environment Sensing Using Acoustic Camera

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21J12362
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section国内
Review Section Basic Section 20020:Robotics and intelligent system-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

WANG YUSHENG  東京大学, 工学系研究科, 特別研究員(DC2)

Project Period (FY) 2021-04-28 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Keywords2d forward looking sonar / 3d reconstuction / deep learning / multi-path reflection / rendering / fiduicial marker / pose estimation
Outline of Research at the Start

極限水中環境において,一般な光学センサーなどによるセンシングすることが困難である.次世代音響カメラは濁った水においても鮮明な二次元画像を取得することが可能である.しかし,特殊な投影原理などにより,様々なタスクに直接運用することができない.特に,音響画像を用いて環境情報の収集と水中ロボットのナビゲーションする技術は重要視されている.本研究は水中ロボットによる構造物の点検のためのマーカシステムを提案する.デザインされたマーカにより,マーカと音響カメラの相対位置・姿勢を推定することが可能である.本システムにより,ロボットによる水中構造物の自動点検は可能となる.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

This year, several aspects of acoustic camera sensing in extreme underwater environments were achieved. The first is 3D reconstruction using two to three acoustic images. 3D reconstruction with a small number of acoustic images is a challenging task. An elevation plane sweeping stereo network was proposed. After training the network with a well-built dataset, it is possible to generate high-quality 3D model. This can be applied to underwater monitoring. The second is ground echo modeling, multi-path reflection may influence recognition results using acoustic images. By assuming the ground is flat, it is possible to explicitly model the ground echo. This is an important fundamental research in this field. The third is testing differentiable rendering in acoustic camera. This is the key to building the relationship between image simulation using computer graphics techniques and computer vision tasks like pose estimation and 3D reconstruction. It can be used to solve inverse rendering problems and be integrated into deep learning frameworks. Early results proved the feasibility of the method. A field experiment in water tank was also carried out for dataset collection. Three international conference papers were accepted on the three aspects.

Research Progress Status

令和4年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

令和4年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Report

(2 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Elevation Angle Estimation in 2D Acoustic Images Using Pseudo Front View2021

    • Author(s)
      Wang Yusheng、Ji Yonghoon、Liu Dingyu、Tsuchiya Hiroshi、Yamashita Atsushi、Asama Hajime
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

      Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Pages: 1535-1542

    • DOI

      10.1109/lra.2021.3058911

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Acoustic Camera-Based Pose Graph SLAM for Dense 3-D Mapping in Underwater Environments2021

    • Author(s)
      Wang Yusheng、Ji Yonghoon、Woo Hanwool、Tamura Yusuke、Tsuchiya Hiroshi、Yamashita Atsushi、Asama Hajime
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

      Volume: 46 Issue: 3 Pages: 829-847

    • DOI

      10.1109/joe.2020.3033036

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 2D Forward Looking Sonar Simulation with Ground Echo Modeling2023

    • Author(s)
      Yusheng Wang, Chujie Wu, Yonghoon Ji, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Hajime Asama and Atsushi Yamashita
    • Organizer
      The 2023 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Acoustic Camera Pose Refinement Using Differentiable Rendering2023

    • Author(s)
      Chujie Wu, Yusheng Wang, Yooghoon Ji, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Hajime Asama and Atsushi Yamashita
    • Organizer
      The 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Learning Pseudo Front Depth for 2D Forward-Looking Sonar-based Multi-view Stereo2023

    • Author(s)
      Yusheng Wang, Yonghoon Ji, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Hajime Asama and Atsushi Yamashita
    • Organizer
      The 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Simulator-aided Edge-based Acoustic Camera Pose Estimation2022

    • Author(s)
      Yusheng Wang
    • Organizer
      OCEANS 2022 Chennai
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Elevation Angle Estimation in 2D Acoustic Images Using Pseudo Front View2021

    • Author(s)
      Yusheng Wang
    • Organizer
      IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2021)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] http://www.robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/yamalab/

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 研究室URL

    • URL

      http://www.robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/yamalab/index.html

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2021-05-27   Modified: 2024-03-26  

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