A Curvature-Based Approach to Terrain Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1989, Pages 1213-1217

  Goldgof, Dmitry B ^a   Huang, Thomas S ^a   Lee, Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D representation and recognition; Computer vision; range imaging; shape and 3 D description; visual navigation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL; SURFACES;

CURVATURE PROFILES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TERRAIN RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0024769631     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.42859     Document Type: Article

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