Height estimation from monocular image sequences using dynamic programming with explicit occlusions

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-161

  Cai, J ^a,b   Walker, R ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D INFORMATION; ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; AERIAL IMAGES; AVERAGE ERRORS; CAMERA FOCAL LENGTH; DEPTH DISCONTINUITIES; DEPTH INFORMATION; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; MOBILE PLATFORM; MONOCULAR IMAGE SEQUENCE; NORMALISATION; NOVEL ALGORITHM; POWER LINES; SEQUENTIAL IMAGES; SINGLE CAMERAS; SMALL AIRPLANES; STEREO MATCHING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 78649385457     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi.2009.0063     Document Type: Article

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