Cost-effective unbiased straight-line fitting to multi-viewpoint range data

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E80-A, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 472-478

  Tagawa, Norio ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Line fitting; Maximum likelihood estimator; Multi viewpoint; Unbiased estimator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALTERNATIVE LINE FITTING METHOD; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031099959     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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