SAFER vehicle inspection: A nultimodal robotic sensing platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5422, Issue , 2004, Pages 549-560

  Page, David L ^a   Fougerolle, Yohan ^a,b   Koschan, Andreas F ^a   Gribok, Andrei ^a   Abidi, Mongi A ^a   Gorsich, David J ^c   Gerhart, Grant R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c US Army Research Development and Engineering Command   (United States)

Author keywords

3d representation; 3d segmentation; Computer vision; Unmanned ground vehicles; Vehicle inspection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; GROUND VEHICLES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SCANNING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

3D REPRESENTATION; 3D SEGMENTATION; SECURITY AUTOMATION AND FUTURE ELECTROMOTIVE ROBOTICS (SAFER); THERMAL IMAGING CAMERAS; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; VEHICLE INSPECTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 4344623494     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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