Parameter estimation techniques: A tutorial with application to conic fitting

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-76

  Zhang, Zhengyou ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Kalman filtering; Least squares; Parameter estimation; Robust regression

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BIAS CORRECTION; CONIC FITTING; ROBUST REGRESSION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0030815476     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(96)01112-2     Document Type: Article

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