Appearance-based localization of mobile robots using local integral invariants

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9, IAS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 181-188

  Tamimi, Hashem ^a   Halawani, Alaa ^b   Burkhardt, Hans ^b   Zell, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

(DoG) based interest point detector; Appearance based robot localization; Integral invariants

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE BASED; GAUSSIANS; INTEGRAL INVARIANT; LOCAL FEATURE; POINT DETECTORS; ROBOT ENVIRONMENT; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; TRAINING PHASE;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84871907713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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