A visual odometry method based on the SwissRanger SR4000

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7692, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ye, Cang ^a   Bruch, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b LAC+USC Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Flash LADAR; Pose estimation; SIFT feature detector; Visual odometry

Indexed keywords

3D CAMERA; 3D DATA; DEPTH MEASUREMENTS; EGO-MOTION; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE MATCHING; FLASH LADAR; IMAGE FRAMES; INTENSITY IMAGES; LARGE IMAGES; LEAST SQUARES; POSE ESTIMATION; RANGE DATA; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SIFT FEATURE; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SWISSRANGER; TRANSLATION MATRICES; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

CAMERAS; ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77953770883     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.850349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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