Robotic sightseeing - A method for automatically creating virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4_1998, Issue , 1998, Pages 3186-3191

  Bourque, Eric ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^a   Ciaravola, Philippe ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ROBOTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER VISION; DATA ACQUISITION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; CYLINDRICAL SAMPLES; EDGE STRUCTURES; HUMAN VISUAL ATTENTION; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED REPRESENTATION; ONLINE PROBLEMS; PANORAMIC IMAGES;

ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ROBOTIC SIGHTSEEING;

EID: 0031645824     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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