Analysis of cluttered scenes using an elastic matching approach for stereo images

Neural Computation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1441-1471

  Eckes, Christian ^a   Triesch, Jochen ^b   Von Der Malsburg, Christoph ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; ROBOTICS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 33646798105     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2006.18.6.1441     Document Type: Article

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