Simultaneous segmentation and superquadrics fitting in laser-range data

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 441-452

  Pascoal, Ricardo ^a   Santos, Vitor ^a   Premebida, Cristiano ^b   Nunes, Urbano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Navigation; object modeling; optimization; segmentation; superquadrics

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NAVIGATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; GLOBAL OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OBJECT MODEL; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PARTIAL OCCLUSIONS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; STATE OF THE ART; SUPERQUADRICS;

OBJECT DETECTION;

EID: 84923111087     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2321899     Document Type: Article

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