Model based vehicle detection and tracking for autonomous urban driving

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 123-139

  Petrovskaya, Anna ^a   Thrun, Sebastian ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous driving; Bayesian model; Laser range finders; Particle filter; Urban driving; Vehicle tracking

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; BAYESIAN MODEL; LASER RANGE FINDERS; PARTICLE FILTER; URBAN DRIVING; VEHICLE TRACKING;

AIR FILTERS; AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LASERS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RANGE FINDERS; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VEHICLES;

EID: 67349251034     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-009-9115-1     Document Type: Article

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