Obstacle detection for low flying unmanned aerial vehicles using stereoscopic imaging

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-118

  Hanna, E ^a   Straznicky, P ^a   Goubran, R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Distance measurement; Obstacle detection and avoidance; Real time processing; Stereoscopic imaging; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CORRELATION METHODS; DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TESTING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COMPUTER VISION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; OBSTACLE DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE; REAL-TIME PROCESSING; STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 51349121013     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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