The use of optical flow for road navigation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-48

  Giachetti, Andrea ^a   Campani, Marco ^b,c   Torre, Vincent ^d  

^a CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Egomotion recovery; Optical flow; Relative motion detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

EGOMOTION; ROAD NAVIGATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032000642     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.660838     Document Type: Article

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