Tracking intraocular microdevices based on colorspace evaluation and statistical color/shape information

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3934-3939

  Bergeles, Christos ^a   Fagogenis, Georgios ^a   Abbott, Jake J ^b   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE TRACKING; BLURRED IMAGE; COLOR HISTOGRAM; HUMAN EYE; LEVEL SET; MICRO DEVICES; MICROROBOTS; MICROTOOLS; OPHTHALMIC SURGERY; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; REAL TIME; SHAPE INFORMATION; SPECULARITIES; STATISTICAL SHAPES; THRESHOLD SELECTION; TRACKING ERRORS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 70350366591     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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