An efficient similarity metric for omnidirectional vision sensors

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 750-757

  Frontoni, Emanuele ^a   Zingaretti, Primo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Appearance based; Feature vectors; Metric measure; Robot localization; Vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

APPEARANCE BASED; FEATURE VECTORS; METRIC MEASURE; ROBOT LOCALIZATION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33747016764     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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