A visual attention-based approach for automatic landmark selection and recognition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3368, Issue , 2005, Pages 183-195

  Ouerhani, Nabil ^a   Hügli, Heinz ^a   Gruener, Gabriel ^b   Codourey, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; TRAJECTORIES;

LANDMARK SELECTION; VISION SYSTEM; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL LANDMARKS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 24144478491     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30572-9_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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