On the performance of color tracking algorithms for underwater robots under varying lighting and visibility

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 3550-3555

  Sattar, Junaed ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; ROBOTICS;

SERVO CONTROL; UNDERWATER ROBOTS; VISION APPLICATIONS;

UNDERWATER IMAGING;

EID: 33845640137     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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