Wide-angle camera distortions and non-uniform illumination in mobile robot tracking

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-133

  Klančar, Gregor ^a   Kristan, Matej ^a   Karba, Rihard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Computer vision; Mobile robots tracking; Non uniform illumination correction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRACKING (POSITION);

CAMERA CALIBRATION; NON-UNIFORM ILLUMINATION CORRECTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0742289961     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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