Appearance-based place recognition for topological localization

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1023-1029

  Ulrich, Iwan ^a   Nourbakhsh, Illah ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SEQUENCE TEST; IMAGE HISTOGRAM MATCHING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR LEARNING; PANORAMIC VISION SYSTEM; TOPOLOGICAL LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COLOR VISION; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; SENSORS;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0033708543     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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