Uncertainty analysis for optimum plane extraction from noisy 3D range-sensor point-clouds

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-48

  Pathak, Kaustubh ^a   Vaskevicius, Narunas ^a   Birk, Andreas ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D mapping; Plane fusion; Plane uncertainty estimation; Plane fitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149111403     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-009-0057-4     Document Type: Article

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