Head movements for depth perception: Praying mantis versus pigeon

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-42

  Bruckstein, Alfred ^a   Holt, Robert J ^b,c   Katsman, Igor ^a   Rivlin, Ehud ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth estimation; Depth from motion; Motion based visually mediated odometry; Motion parallax; Range estimation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; VELOCITY;

DEPTH ESTIMATION; DEPTH FROM MOTION; MOTION BASED VISUALLY MEDIATED ODOMETRY; MOTION PARALLAX; RANGE ESTIMATION;

DEPTH PERCEPTION;

EID: 9144233648     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000047302.46654.e3     Document Type: Article

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