Vision-based linear motion estimation for unmanned underwater vehicles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 977-982

  Caccia, Massimo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Motion estimation; Underwater vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PLANNING; OPTICAL SENSORS; SUBMERSIBLES;

UNDERWATER VISION; VISION-BASED LINEAR MOTION ESTIMATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 0344444717     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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