Real-time surface following for teleoperation in virtual environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3206, Issue , 1997, Pages 66-73

  Gagnon, Eric ^a   Greenspan, Michael ^b   Ballantyne, John W ^a  

^a L 3 Communications SPAR Aerospace Limited   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elevation grid; Real time; Surface following; Teleoperation; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REMOTE CONTROL; TABLE LOOKUP; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ELEVATION GRID; FILLING IN; LOOK-UP TABLES; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; POINT CLOUDS; RANGE IMAGES; REAL-TIME; REPETITIVE COMPUTATIONS; SURFACE APPROXIMATIONS; SURFACE CONTOURS; TELEOPERATION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0343035447     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.295589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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