Find-Object
- Software
- Perception
- Tool
A ROS package for detecting and locating known objects in camera images, usable as a standalone tool, on ROS 1, and on ROS 2. It matches images of objects against a live camera feed.
Made by IntRoLab, Canada (checked on github.com/introlab (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/introlab/find-object (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 0a00ade (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 0a00ade (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Detects objects in an image stream by matching them against reference images.
- Can draw detected objects on the image using a ROS 2 example node.
- Adds 3D pose estimation (TF) when an RGB-D camera with aligned depth is used.
- Provides ROS 1 nodes launched with rosrun and ROS 2 launch files for camera input.
- Binaries are available via apt for several ROS distributions, and source builds use catkin or colcon.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 0a00ade.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 8 Oct 2026 on master
- Latest release
- v0.6.3 (15 Nov 2020)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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