Visual saliency improves autonomous visual search

Proceedings - Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 111-118

  Rasouli, Amir ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Motion Planning; Robotic; Visual Attention; Visual Search

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOTION PLANNING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBOTICS; VISUALIZATION;

AUTONOMY; COMPLEX TASK; SALIENCY MAP; SPATIAL VOLUME; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL SALIENCY; VISUAL SEARCH;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84902252816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2014.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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