Towards a unified visual framework in a binocular active robot vision system

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-286

  Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo ^a   Fattah, Haitham ^b   Paul Siebert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM LEVEL INTEGRATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active vision; Gaze control; Object recognition; Robot head

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VISION; ATTENTION CONTROL; CAMERA GEOMETRY; CLUTTERED SCENES; FIELD OF VIEWS; GAZE CONTROL; PILOT STUDIES; ROBOT HEAD; ROBOT VISION SYSTEMS; SPACE MAPS; STEPPING STONE; SYSTEM STRUCTURES; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; VERGENCES; VISUAL SEARCH STRATEGIES;

BINOCULAR VISION; BINOCULARS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PIXELS; ROBOTS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 75749137664     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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