A hybrid approach for vision-based outdoor robot localization using global and local image features

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1047-1052

  Weiss, Christian ^a   Tamimi, Hashem ^b   Masselli, Andreas ^a   Zell, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE MATCHING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROTATION;

HYBRID APPROACHES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 51349089247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4398959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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