Identifying vegetation from laser data in structured outdoor environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 675-684

  Wurm, Kai M ^a   Kretzschmar, Henrik ^a   Kümmerle, Rainer ^a   Stachniss, Cyrill ^a   Burgard, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Laser reflectivity; Self supervised learning; Terrain classification; Vegetation detection

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; REFLECTION; VEGETATION;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; REFLECTION PROPERTIES; SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84897912640     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2012.10.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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