Symmetrical SURF and Its applications to vehicle detection and vehicle make and model recognition

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-20

  Hsieh, Jun Wei ^a   Chen, Li Chih ^b,c   Chen, Duan Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LEE MING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Symmetrical Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF); vehicle detection; vehicle make and model recognition (MMR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894066827     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2013.2294646     Document Type: Article

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