Unsupervised learning of terrain appearance for automated coral reef exploration

Proceedings of the 2009 Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 268-275

  Giguere, Philippe ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^a   Prahacs, Christopher ^a   Plamondon, Nicolas ^a   Turgeon, Katrine ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CORAL REEF; DIFFERENT TERRAINS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; OPEN WATER; SYSTEM-BASED; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER VISION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION; REEFS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70350528883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2009.41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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