Active stereo tracking of N ≤ 3 targets using line scan cameras

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 442-457

  Barreto, Joao P ^a   Perdigoto, Luis ^a,b   Caseiro, Rui ^a   Araujo, Helder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Active vision; Computer vision; Stereo; Visual servoing; Visual tracking

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STEREO; ACTIVE SYSTEMS; ACTIVE VISION; CONTROL EQUATIONS; DESIGN STAGE; GENERAL APPROACH; GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK; HOMOGRAPHIES; IMAGE LOCATIONS; LINE-SCAN CAMERAS; MOVING TARGETS; PAN-TILT-ZOOM CAMERA; ROBOT HEAD; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRACKING BEHAVIOR; UNCONSTRAINED MOTION; VISUAL TRACKING; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ROTATION; TARGETS; VISUAL SERVOING;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 77953231316     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2047300     Document Type: Article

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