A low-cost system using sparse vision for navigation in the urban environment

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 225-233

  Snaith, Martin ^a   Lee, David ^a   Probert, Penny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature detection; Navigation; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION PLANNING; VISION;

SPARSELY SAMPLED IMAGES;

MOBILITY AIDS FOR BLIND PERSONS;

EID: 0032478446     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00094-2     Document Type: Article

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