Towards log-polar fixation for mobile robots - Analysis of corner tracking on the log-polar camera

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 300-303

  Yeung, Albert ^a   Barnes, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corner tracking; Fixation; Hough transforms; Log polar vision; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; MOBILE ROBOTS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CORNER TRACKING; FIXATION; LOG-POLAR VISION;

MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

ACTIVE VISION; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOG-POLAR VISION; LOWER RESOLUTION; PIXEL COUNT; REAL TIME TRACKING; TARGET POINT;

EID: 9544253811     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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