Uncalibrated obstacle detection using normal flow

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 130-137

  Santos Victor, José ^a,c,d   Sandini, Giulio ^b,e,f  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Instituto Superior Técnico ^*

^d Institute of Systems and Robotics

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Lab for Intgd Advanced Robotics

Author keywords

Affine motion; Mobile robots; Normal flow; Obstacle detection; Robot vision

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AFFINE MOTION; NORMAL FLOW INFORMATION; TIME AND SPACE IMAGE DERIVATIVES; UNCALIBRATED OBSTACLE DETECTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0030397787     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01216818     Document Type: Article

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