An ROV stereovision system for ship-hull inspection

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 551-564

  Negahdaripour, Shahriar ^a   Firoozfam, Pezham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs); Stereovision; Underwater visual inspection

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; INSPECTION; MAPPING; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; STEREO VISION; TRACKING (POSITION);

SHIP-HULL INSPECTION; STEREO IMAGES; UNDERWATER VISUAL INSPECTION;

HULLS (SHIP);

EID: 33947356184     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.851391     Document Type: Article

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