Robot Visual Localization Through Local Feature Fusion: An Evaluation of Multiple Classifiers Combination Approaches

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 377-390

  Campos, Francisco M ^a   Correia, Luís ^b   Calado, J M F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Discriminativity; Information fusion; Local image features; Multiple classifier systems; Robot visual localization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ALGEBRA; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION FUSION;

DISCRIMINATIVITY; IMAGE SIMILARITY; LOCAL FEATURE; LOCAL IMAGE FEATURES; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS COMBINATION; PUBLIC DATASET; VISUAL LOCALIZATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84921067172     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-013-0016-3     Document Type: Article

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