Everything I do inside this project is out of passion and constant drive to learn from professionals. I have also been awarded with a scholarship.
We are building the first robots to clean the litter from the ocean floor. It is an EU funded project and I’m contributing through Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
MISSION
Today’s oceans contain 26-66 million tons of waste, with approximately 94% located on the seafloor. So far, collection efforts have focused mostly on surface waste. The few efforts to gather underwater waste involve human divers who are put in potential danger. No solution exists that exploits autonomous robots for underwater litter collection. The SeaClear project will develop the first.
My contribution
I joined in October 2024 and so far, I contributed in these topics:
- Computer Vision for detecting a Metallic Grid and a set reference
- System Monotonic Clock
- UVC Video Stream
- Real-Time Streaming Protocol
- Camera Backward Projection
- Camera Calibration
- Camera Calibration and 3D Reconstruction
- Rodrigues’ Rotation and Translation Angles
- Extracting GoPro footage in ROS
- CNN Architecture for detecting the BlueROV
Currently working on...
Real-time comparison of multi-camera 3D pose estimation(code is done, waiting to validate with a good enough experiment).