A Fast Line Finder for Vision-Guided Robot Navigation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 1990, Pages 1098-1102

  Kahn, P ^a   Kitchen, L ^a,b   Riseman, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer vision; knowledge directed vision processing; line extraction; vision guided navigation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING--IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ALGORITHMS; ROBOTS--MOBILE;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINE EXTRACTION; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SELECTIVE PROCESSING; VISION ALGORITHM; VISION GUIDED NAVIGATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0025519494     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.61710     Document Type: Article

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