Autonomous altitude estimation of a UAV using a single onboard camera

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3900-3905

  Cherian, Anoop ^a   Andersh, Jon ^a   Morellas, Vassilios ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Mettler, Bernard ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; BASIC IDEA; BASIS SETS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; ONBOARD CAMERA; OVER-COMPLETE; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SPARSE BASIS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TEST IMAGES; TEXTURE INFORMATION; TEXTURE VARIATION; TOPDOWN; TRAINING SETS; VISION BASED;

CAMERAS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; TEXTURES; TURNAROUND TIME; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 76249096679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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