Active Object Recognition Integrating Attention and Viewpoint Control

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-260

  Dickinson, Sven J ^a   Christensen, Henrik I ^b   Tsotsos, John K ^c   Olofsson, Göran ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOCUSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

ATTENTION CONTROL; PROBABILISTIC FEATURE HIERARCHY; VIEWPOINT CONTROL;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031234854     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0532     Document Type: Article

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