The cyborg astrobiologist: Porting from a wearable computer to the Astrobiology Phone-cam

International Journal of Astrobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 255-261

  Bartolo, Alexandra ^a   McGuire, Patrick C ^b   Camilleri, Kenneth P ^a   Spiteri, Christopher ^a   Borg, Jonathan C ^a   Farrugia, Philip J ^a   Ormö, Jens ^c   Gómez Elvira, Javier ^c   Rodriguez Manfredi, José Antonio ^c   Díaz Marit́nez, Enrique ^d   Ritter, Helge ^e   Haschke, Robert ^e   Oesker, Markus ^e   Ontrup, Jörg ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^e BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Camera phones; Computer vision; Field geology; Image segmentation; Interest map; Robotics; Uncommon map; Wearable computers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER VISION; EXOBIOLOGY; EXPLORATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROBOTICS;

EID: 37549069705     PISSN: 14735504     EISSN: 14753006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1473550407003862     Document Type: Article

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