A multi-camera conical imaging system for robust 3D motion estimation, positioning and mapping from UAVs

Proceedings - IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 99-106

  Firoozfam, P ^a   Negahdaripour, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge coupled image sensors; Image generation; Machine vision; Motion estimation; Navigation; Optical imaging; Robustness; Standards development

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CCD CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER VISION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ESTIMATION; MAPPING; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOTION ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VIDEO CAMERAS;

3D MOTION ESTIMATION; CATADIOPTRIC CAMERAS; CONVENTIONAL CAMERA; IMAGE GENERATIONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; VISUAL MOTION ESTIMATION;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 35649020152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AVSS.2003.1217908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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