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Table 2 Summary of vision-based stair recognition systems for robotic leg prostheses and exoskeletons

From: StairNet: visual recognition of stairs for human–robot locomotion

Reference

Camera

Position

Data set Size

Classifier

Computing Device

Test Accuracy

[11]

RGB

Waist

7284

Convolutional neural network

NVIDIA Titan X

99.6%

[10]

Depth

Chest

170

Heuristic thresholding and edge detector

Intel Core i5

98.8%

[9]

Depth

Leg

8455

Support vector machine

Intel Core i7-2640M

98.5%

StairNet

RGB

Chest

515,452

Convolutional neural network

Google Cloud TPU

98.4%

[17]

Depth

Leg

3000

Convolutional neural network

NVIDIA Quadro P400

96.8%

[8]

Depth

Leg

109,699

Cubic kernel support vector machine

Intel Core i7-2640M

95.6%

[14]

RGB

Chest

34,254

Convolutional neural network

NVIDIA TITAN Xp

94.9%

[15]

RGB

Head

123,979

Bayesian deep neural network

NVIDIA Jetson TX2

93.2%

[16]

RGB

Leg

123,954

Bayesian deep neural network

NVIDIA Jetson TX2

92.4%

(27)

RGB

Chest

542,868

Convolutional neural network

Google Cloud TPU

70.8%

  1. The data set size (i.e., the number of images) and test accuracy are only for the environment classes relating to level-ground walking and stair ascent. The systems are organized in terms of the test accuracy (%)