An object-based visual attention model for robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 943-948

  Yu, Anlong ^a   Mann, George K I ^a   Gosine, Raymond G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MODULATION; ROBOTICS;

OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; OBJECT-BASED; VISUAL ATTENTION MODELING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649106272     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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