Visual inspection of sea bottom structures by an autonomous underwater vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 691-705

  Foresti, Gian Luca ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Extended Kalman filter (EKF); Feature extraction; Object tracking; Underwater imaging

Indexed keywords

SEA BOTTOM STRUCTURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; KALMAN FILTERING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

UNDERWATER STRUCTURES;

EID: 0035481271     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.956031     Document Type: Article

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