Local visual homing by warping of two-dimensional images

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-101

  Möller, Ralf ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image warping; Navigation; Visual homing

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE MATCHING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; EXTERNAL-; IMAGE DATABASES; IMAGE WARPING; IMPROVED PERFORMANCES; TOPOLOGICAL MAPS; VANTAGE POINTS; VISUAL HOMING;

WEAVING;

EID: 56349165183     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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