Novel Tactile-SIFT Descriptor for Object Shape Recognition

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5001-5009

  Luo, Shan ^a   Mou, Wenxuan ^b   Althoefer, Kaspar ^a   Liu, Hongbin ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

object recognition; robot tactile systems; Tactile sensors

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; GRADIENT VECTORS; OBJECT SHAPE RECOGNITION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; ROBOT TACTILE SYSTEMS; SIFT DESCRIPTORS; TACTILE SENSORS; TIME EFFICIENCIES;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84937468217     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2432127     Document Type: Article

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