Combined space-variant maps for optical-flow-based navigation

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-209

  Baratoff, Gregory ^a   Toepfer, Christian ^a   Neumann, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYBERNETICS; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYBERNETICS; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034276757     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220000164     Document Type: Article

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