A realistic benchmark for visual indoor place recognition

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-96

  Pronobis, A ^a   Caputo, B ^b   Jensfelt, P ^a   Christensen, H I ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Robot topological localization; Standard robotic benchmark; Visual place recognition

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE BASED; BENCHMARK DATASETS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; IMAGE DATABASE; MOBILE ROBOT SYSTEMS; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; PLACE RECOGNITION; RANGE SENSORS; REAL-WORLD; STANDARD CAMERAS; TIME RANGE; TOPOLOGICAL LOCALIZATION; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL PLACE RECOGNITION; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 70450221694     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.025     Document Type: Article

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