Eye-Full Tower: A GPU-based variable multibaseline omnidirectional stereovision system with automatic baseline selection for outdoor mobile robot navigation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 747-761

  Lui, Wen Lik Dennis ^a   Jarvis, Ray ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic baseline selection; Camera calibration; Mobile robot; Multibaseline stereovision; Omnidirectional stereovision

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC BASELINE SELECTION; CAMERA CALIBRATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI-BASELINE; MULTIBASELINE STEREOVISION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION SYSTEM; OUTDOOR MOBILE ROBOTS; PRIMARY FACTORS; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; SELECTION PROCESS; STEREO-VISION SYSTEM; VISION SENSORS; VISION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 77953140018     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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