The Agile stereo pair for active vision

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-50

  Samson, Eric ^a   Laurendeau, Denis ^a   Parizeau, Marc ^a   Comtois, Sylvain ^a   Allan, Jean François ^a   Gosselin, Clément ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseline; Calibration; Dynamic gaze; Stereo sensor; Vergence

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MANIPULATORS; SENSORS;

BASELINE; DYNAMIC GAZE; STEREO SENSOR; VERGENCE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 33645346202     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-006-0013-7     Document Type: Article

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