The MVP Sensor Planning System for Robotic Vision Tasks

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 72-85

  Tarabanis, Konstantinos A ^a   Tsai, Roger Y ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS;

MVP SENSOR PLANNING SYSTEM; ROBOTIC VISION; VISION SENSOR PLANNING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0029251854     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.345939     Document Type: Article

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