Fusion of aerial images and sensor data from a ground vehicle for improved semantic mapping

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 483-492

  Persson, Martin ^a   Duckett, Tom ^b   Lilienthal, Achim J ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial image; Mobile robot; Semantic mapping; Semi supervised learning

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; GROUND VEHICLES; RANGE FINDERS; SEMANTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

AERIAL IMAGES; SEMANTIC MAPPING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 44149107914     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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