First steps toward an electronic field guide for plants

Taxon

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 597-610

  Agarwal, Gaurav ^a   Belhumeur, Peter ^b   Feiner, Steven ^b   Jacobs, David ^a   Kress, W John ^c   Ramamoorthi, Ravi ^b   Bourg, Norman A ^c   Dixit, Nandan ^b   Ling, Haibin ^a   Mahajan, Dhruv ^b   Russell, Rusty ^c   Shirdhonkar, Sameer ^a   Sunkavalli, Kalyan ^b   White, Sean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b 450 Computer Science Building ^*  (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented reality; Computer vision; Content based image retrieval; Electronic field guide; Inner distance; Mobile computing; Recognition; Shape matching; Species identification; Type specimens; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL IMAGE; DIGITIZATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PLANT;

EID: 33749572922     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25065637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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