Global localization using distinctive visual features

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 226-231

  Se, Stephen ^a   Lowe, David ^b   Little, Jim ^b  

^a MD Robotics   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIGATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0036453412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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