Computing occlusion-free viewpoints

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 279-292

  Tarabanis, Konstantinos ^a   Tsai, Roger Y ^a   Kaul, Anil ^a  

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

Author keywords

CAD based vision; Sensor planning; Viewpont planning; Visibility occlusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SENSORS; VISIBILITY;

CONSTRUCTIVE SOLID GEOMETRY; SENSOR PLANNING; VIEWPOINT PLANNING; VISIBILITY OCCLUSION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0030109078     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.485556     Document Type: Article

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