UAV altitude estimation by mixed stereoscopic vision

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 646-651

  Eynard, Damien ^a   Vasseur, Pascal ^a,b   Demonceaux, Cédric ^a   Frémont, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; FEATURE MATCHING; FISH-EYE CAMERAS; GROUND PLANES; HOMOGRAPHIES; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; SMALL UAV; STEREOSCOPIC SYSTEMS; STEREOSCOPIC VISION;

CAMERAS; ESTIMATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 78651511893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5652254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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