A vision system for intelligent mission profiles of micro air vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1713-1725

  Todorovic, Sinisa ^a   Nechyba, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Object recognition; Real time control; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTERS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MICRO AIR VEHICLES; REAL TIME CONTROL; VISION BASED CONTROL;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 10244227880     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2004.834880     Document Type: Article

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