Model-Based Recognition in Robot Vision

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 67-108

  Chin, Roland T ^a   Dyer, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D; 2 D; 3 D; Bin picking; computer vision; feature extraction; industrial part recognition; matching; model based image understanding; modeling; representations; robot vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS; ROBOTICS - VISION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS, INDUSTRIAL - VISION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER VISION; INDUSTRIAL PART RECOGNITION; MODEL-BASED RECOGNITION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOT VISION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0022674591     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/6462.6464     Document Type: Article

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