Using visual features to build topological maps of indoor environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 850-855

  Rybski, Paul E ^a   Zacharias, Franziska ^a   Lett, Jean Francois ^a   Masoud, Osama ^a   Gini, Maria ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PATTERN MATCHING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FEATURE TRACKING ALGORITHM; ODOMETRY; PANORAMIC CAMERA;

MAPPING;

EID: 0344444738     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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