Segmentation and modeling of visually symmetric objects by robot actions

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1124-1142

  Li, Wai Ho ^a   Kleeman, Lindsay ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomous; computer vision; fast symmetry; grasping; interactive learning; object manipulation; object recognition; real time; robotics; segmentation; SIFT

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS; FAST SYMMETRY; GRASPING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING; OBJECT MANIPULATION; REAL TIME; SIFT;

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 80052210121     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364910395417     Document Type: Article

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