DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5095500
title: Images of Balls Transported on a Conveyor Belt - Recording 1

description: This data set comprises images of balls on a conveyor belt. The images were recorded on the small-scale optical belt sorter Tablesort. A thorough description of the Tablesort system can be found in <em>Georg Maier, Florian Pfaff, Christoph Pieper, Robin Gruna, Benjamin Noack, Harald Kruggel-Emden, Thomas Längle, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Jürgen Beyerer,</em> <strong>Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Sensor-Based Sorting Approach Featuring Predictive Real-Time Multiobject Tracking</strong>, Transactions on Industrial Electronics, February 2020. See also the project website. This dataset is part of a batch of recordings on optical sorters. Please use the search function with the keyword "Tobias Hornberger" (in quotes) to find them or use the list at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5506551 (conveyor belt data sets only). The camera was recorded on a Bonito CL-400C. The calibration image for the extrinsic parameters can be found in calibration_extrinsics.png for the extrinsics and calibration_color.png for the color calibration. Please see the debayer script on GitHub<strong>.</strong> Each pixel is approximately 0.056 mm long in world coordinates. The frame rate is 192.9 Hz. Algorithms for two key challenges can be developed and evaluated on the data sets: Multitarget tracking for predicting the particle’s motion. This can be used to enhance the separation of optical sorters. For further details on this, see the publications <em>Florian Pfaff, Marcus Baum, Benjamin Noack, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Robin Gruna, Thomas Längle, Jürgen Beyerer,</em><br> <strong>TrackSort: Predictive Tracking for Sorting Uncooperative Bulk Materials,</strong><br> Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2015), San Diego, California, USA, September 2015. <em>Florian Pfaff, Christoph Pieper, Georg Maier, Benjamin Noack, Robin Gruna, Harald Kruggel-Emden, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Siegmar Wirtz, Viktor Scherer, Thomas Längle, Jürgen Beyerer,</em><br> <strong>Predictive Tracking with Improved Motion Models for Optical Belt Sorting</strong>,<br> at – Automatisierungstechnik, April 2020. Classification of particles. The classification may use a multitarget tracker to accumulate visual features over time. One can also use the information on the trajectory to classify the particles. For information on this, refer to <em>Georg Maier, Florian Pfaff, Florian Becker, Christoph Pieper, Robin Gruna, Benjamin Noack, Harald Kruggel-Emden, Thomas Längle, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Siegmar Wirtz, Viktor Scherer, Jürgen Beyerer,</em><br> <strong>Improving Material Characterization in Sensor-Based Sorting by Utilizing Motion Information,</strong><br> Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Optical Characterization of Materials (OCM 2017), Karlsruhe, Germany, March 2017. <em>Georg Maier, Florian Pfaff, Florian Becker, Christoph Pieper, Robin Gruna, Benjamin Noack, Harald Kruggel-Emden, Thomas Längle, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Siegmar Wirtz, Viktor Scherer, Jürgen Beyerer,</em><br> <strong>Motion-Based Material Characterization in Sensor-Based Sorting,</strong> <br> tm – Technisches Messen, De Gruyter, October 2017. <br> To this date, publications that used these data include <em>Daniel Pollithy, Marcel Reith-Braun, Florian Pfaff, Uwe D. Hanebeck,</em><br> <strong>Estimating Uncertainties of Recurrent Neural Networks in Application to Multitarget Tracking</strong>,<br> Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2020), Virtual, September 2020. CSV-files with already associated particle tracks are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5506551. <strong>Acknowledgment</strong> The IGF project 20354 N of the research association Forschungs-Gesellschaft Verfahrens-Technik e.V. (GVT) was supported via the AiF in a program to promote the Industrial Community Research and Development (IGF) by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.