Obstacle avoidance for unmanned air vehicles using optical flow probability distributions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5609, Issue , 2004, Pages 13-22

  Merrell, Paul ^a   Lee, Dah Jye ^a   Beard, Randal ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion Parallax; Obstacle Avoidance; Optical Flow; Structure from Motion; Unmanned Air Vehicles

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MOTION PARALLAX; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES;

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VECTORS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 17644375143     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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