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  • Computer Vision
  • Optical Engineering

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  • Accurate stain detection is vital for robotic sweeper hygiene assessment and cleaning.
  • Complex indoor environments with variable lighting and textures challenge current stain detection methods.
  • Standard Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imaging lacks discriminative features for robust stain identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an advanced deep learning framework for stain detection in robotic sweepers.
  • To overcome limitations of RGB imaging by incorporating multispectral and polarization data.
  • To improve the accuracy and robustness of stain detection in challenging real-world scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Designed a lightweight multispectral polarization optical module for robotic sweepers.
  • Developed a multispectral polarization (MP)-based stain detector (MP-stain-detector) fusing spectral and polarization features.
  • Created a comprehensive MP-Stain-dataset from real-world home environments for training and evaluation.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method significantly improves stain detection accuracy compared to conventional approaches.
  • Overall mean accuracy increased by 2.44%.
  • Accuracy for light-colored liquid stains improved by 5.72%.

Conclusions:

  • The integration of multispectral polarization imaging offers a robust solution for stain detection in robotic sweepers.
  • The MP-stain-detector framework and MP-Stain-dataset provide a valuable contribution to the field.
  • This approach enhances the capability of robotic systems for environmental hygiene monitoring.