Rule-based target differentiation and position estimation based on infrared intensity measurements

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1766-1771

  Aytaç, Tayfun ^a   Barshan, Billur ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Infrared sensors; Optical sensing; Pattern recognition and feature extraction; Position estimation; Target differentiation and localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ELECTRONIC STICK; INFRARED INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; INFRARED SENSOR; PHONG ILLUMINATION MODEL; POSITION ESTIMATION; RULE-BASED TARGET DIFFERENTIATION;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0042699875     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1570428     Document Type: Article

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