A saliency-based solution for robust off-road obstacle detection

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3096-3101

  Santana, Pedro ^a   Guedes, Magno ^b,c   Correia, Luís ^a   Barata, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNINOVA   (Portugal)

^c IntRoSys SA ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; IMAGE SCANNING; NOISE LEVELS; OBSTACLE DETECTION; OPEN PROBLEMS; SALIENCY MAP; STEREO-BASED; VISUAL SALIENCY; VOTING MECHANISM;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; ROADS AND STREETS; ROBOTS; VISUALIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955818591     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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