Seat detection in a car for a smart airbag application

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 534-544

  Schreiber, David ^a   Luo, Yun ^b  

^a Advanced Computer Vision GmbH   (Austria)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

3D object recognition; Articulated objects; Free form objects; Generalized Hough transform; Occupant detection and classification; Smart airbag

Indexed keywords

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

3D OBJECT RECOGNITION; ARTICULATED OBJECTS; FREE-FORM OBJECTS; GENERALIZED HOUGH TRANSFORMS; OCCUPANT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; SMART AIRBAGS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 33845503888     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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