Classifier fusion for outdoor obstacle detection

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 665-671

  Dima, Cristian S ^a   Vandapel, Nicolas ^a   Hebert, Martial ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

DATA FUSION; EXPERIMENTAL UNMANNED VEHICLE (XUV); HUMAN DETECTION; OUTDOOR OBSTACLE DETECTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042575320     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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