Beyond Holistic Descriptors, Keypoints, and Fixed Patches: Multiscale Superpixel Grids for Place Recognition in Changing Environments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 484-491

  Neubert, Peer ^a   Protzel, Peter ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Localization; Visual Based Navigation

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPERPIXELS;

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; IMAGE DESCRIPTORS; KEY-POINT DETECTORS; LOCALIZATION; MULTISCALE IMAGES; PLACE RECOGNITION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 85058585252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23773766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2517824     Document Type: Article

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