Mobile robot vision navigation & localization using gist and saliency

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4147-4154

  Chang, Chin Kai ^a   Siagian, Christian ^a   Itti, Laurent ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIST FEATURES; HUMAN VISUAL; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; MOBILE ROBOT VISION NAVIGATION; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; ROUTE LENGTH; SALIENT REGIONS; SCENE UNDERSTANDING; VIDEO FRAME; VISION BASED NAVIGATION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL FEEDBACK CONTROL;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAMMALS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 78651511847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5649136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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