A tool for range sensing and environment discovery for the blind

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn 2004-January, Issue January, 2004, Pages

  Yuan, D ^a   Manduchi, R ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

'CURRENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; FRAME-RATE; LASER-BASED; ONBOARD PROCESSORS; RANGE DATA; RANGE INFORMATION; RANGE SENSING; RANGE SENSORS; SHORT BASE LINES;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 84932597884     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2004.292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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