Effective venue image retrieval using robust feature extraction and model constrained matching for mobile robot localization

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1011-1027

  Feng, Yue ^a   Ren, Jinchang ^b   Jiang, Jianmin ^c   Halvey, Martin ^d   Jose, Joemon M ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Content based image retrieval; Model constrained matching; Robot localization

Indexed keywords

CAMERA POSITIONS; CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; HIGH QUALITY; HOMOGRAPHIES; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; IMAGE CONTENT; IMAGECLEF; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOCAL MATCHING; MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; POINTS OF INTEREST; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; ROBUST MATCHING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; TASK GROUPS; TRAINING SETS; VIDEO FRAME;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE MATCHING; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84865375514     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-011-0350-z     Document Type: Article

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