Addressing corner detection issues for machine vision based UAV aerial refueling

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 261-273

  Vendra, Soujanya ^a   Campa, Giampiero ^a   Napolitano, Marcello R ^a   Mammarella, Marco ^a   Fravolini, Mario L ^b   Perhinschi, Mario G ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corner detection; Labeling; Pose estimation; Visual servo control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL REFUELING; CORNER DETECTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 34948823275     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-006-0056-9     Document Type: Article

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