Visual motion pattern extraction and fusion for collision detection in complex dynamic scenes

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-60

  Yue, Shigang ^a   Claire Rind, F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collision detection; Complex dynamic scene; Direction selectivity; LGMD; Locust; Nature inspired information processing; Neural network; Pattern recognition; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DETECTORS; DYNAMICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COLLISION DETECTION; DIRECTION SELECTIVITY; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTOR (LGMD); VISUAL MOTION; VISUAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 33748477007     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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