Efficient active monocular fixation using the log-polar sensor

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 157-173

  Yeung, Albert ^a   Barnes, Nick ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

biologically inspired robots; biologically inspired sensing; fixation; log polar sensor; robotics; vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349103088     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijista.2005.007313     Document Type: Article

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