Vegetation versus man-made object detection from imagery for unmanned vehicles in offroad environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8741, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Harguess, Josh ^a   Larson, Jacoby ^a  

^a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

Image labeling; Man made object detection; Natural scene statistics; Segmentation; Unmanned ground vehicle; Vegetation classification; Vegetation detection; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

IMAGE LABELING; MAN MADE OBJECTS; NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL SALIENCY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEGETATION;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84881136224     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2016406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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