Robust and efficient vision system for group of cooperating mobile robots with application to soccer robots

ISA Transactions

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-342

  Klančar, Gregor ^a   Kristan, Matej ^a   Kovačič, Stanislav ^a   Orqueda, Omar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Classification; Computer vision; Non uniform ilumination correction; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VISION AIDS;

CAMERA CALIBRATION; NON-UNIFORM ILLUMINATION CORRECTION; ROBOT SOCCER; SEGMENTATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COOPERATION; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SPORT; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS; SOCCER; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 3843085158     PISSN: 00190578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0019-0578(07)60152-9     Document Type: Article

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