Detecting salient cues through illumination-invariant color ratios

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 111-130

  Todt, Eduardo ^a   Torras, Carme ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE ROBÒTICA I INFORMÀTICA INDUSTRIAL CSIC UPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Color constancy; Visual landmarks; Visual robot navigation; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHROMATES; COLOR; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MANIPULATORS; ROBOTS; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR CONSTANCY; VISUAL LANDMARKS; VISUAL ROBOT NAVIGATION; VISUAL SALIENCY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 4344567356     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(04)00089-2     Document Type: Article

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