Bias reduction for stereo based motion estimation with applications to large scale visual odometry

2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2222-2229

  Dubbelman, Gijs ^b   Groen, Frans C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISION;

BIAS REDUCTION; BIASED ESTIMATORS; HETEROSCEDASTIC; LANDMARK LOCATIONS; LOOP CLOSING; MOTION ESTIMATES; UNCERTAINTY MODELS; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 70450164377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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