Active 3D object localization using a humanoid robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-64

  Andreopoulos, Alexander ^a,b,c   Hasler, Stephan ^a   Wersing, Heiko ^a   Janssen, Herbert ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^c   Körner, Edgar ^a  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active vision; computer vision; Hondas humanoid robot (HR); recognition; visual search

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; 3D OBJECT; ACTIVE CONTROL; ACTIVE VISION; CONTEXTUAL CUE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; GREEDY STRATEGIES; HIERARCHICAL RECOGNITION; HUMAN VISION; HUMANOID ROBOT; IMAGE SCALE; OBJECT LOCALIZATION; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION MODELS; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SEARCH TIME; SELECTION OF THE BEST; SHAPE PROPERTY; VISION-BASED SYSTEM; VISUAL SEARCH;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 79951577599     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2090058     Document Type: Article

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