The new generation of automatic landmark detection systems: Challenges and guidelines

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 252-287

  Sadeghian, Pedram ^a   Kantardzic, Mehmed ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmark; Navigation; Virtual environments; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE RELATIVES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LANDMARK; LANDMARK DETECTION; ORIENTATION AIDS; SALIENT FEATURES; WAY-FINDING;

EXPERIMENTS; NAVIGATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 66149083880     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860802039257     Document Type: Article

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