Using Dempster's rule of combination to robustly estimate pointed targets

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1218-1225

  Pateraki, Maria ^a   Baltzakis, Haris ^a   Trahanias, Panos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC;

DEMPSTER'S RULE OF COMBINATION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; HAND POINTING; HEAD POSE; INPUT STREAMS; OFF PLANES; PRIOR INFORMATION; REALISTIC APPLICATIONS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84864452228     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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