The role of viewing angle in integrating the senses of vision and touch for perception of object softness

Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 193-198

  Widmer, Antoine ^a   Yaoping, Hu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBJECT SOFTNESS; SURGICAL PLANNING;

COMPUTER VISION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 37549050082     PISSN: 08408688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CJECE.2007.4407665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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