Pallet Pose Estimation Based on Front Face Shot

Bibliographic Details
Title: Pallet Pose Estimation Based on Front Face Shot
Authors: Natsuki Kai, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takashi Shibata
Source: IEEE Access, Vol 13, Pp 37624-37631 (2025)
Publisher Information: IEEE, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Collection: LCC:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Subject Terms: Pallet pose estimation, autonomous forklift, CNN, KRR (kernel ridge regression), 6D pose, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
More Details: Autonomous forklifts are attracting much attention to address the serious shortage of forklift operators in the logistics industry. For autonomous forklifts to load pallets, they need to accurately estimate the 3D position and 3D orientation, i.e., the 6D pose, of the pallet. Therefore, many 6D pose estimation methods have been developed, and the latest ones utilize deep learning with a large number of pallet images for training. However, conventional methods have a problem in that estimation accuracy significantly decreases when the pallets in the captured images have appearances different from those used in training. To address this problem, the authors propose Front Face Shot (FFS), a novel 6D pose estimation method based on only the front face shot of the pallet. FFS robustly and highly accurately estimates 6D pose even in cases of unlearned pallet appearances by analyzing the 3D structure of the pallet from the front face shot by utilizing a convolutional neural network and kernel ridge regression. Experiments showed that FFS achieved the same level of estimation accuracy from untrained images as from trained ones, whereas the accuracy of conventional methods halved.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2169-3536
Relation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10870115/; https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3538045
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/02702600327242d384170c6c050b9e80
Accession Number: edsdoj.02702600327242d384170c6c050b9e80
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
More Details
ISSN:21693536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3538045
Published in:IEEE Access
Language:English