CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Motion information is an important cue for a robot to separate foreground moving objects from the static background world. Based on the observation that the motion of the backgr...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—We present an algorithm that finds the rotation which best aligns a given configuration of directions on an unsorted set of directions. Using a cost function that we derive in...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—When reconstructing a specific type or class of object using stereo, we can leverage prior knowledge of the shape of that type of object. A popular class of object to reconstru...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—In this paper we present the computer vision component of a 6DOF pose estimation algorithm to be used by an underwater robot. Our goal is to evaluate which feature trackers enab...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
— Algorithmic problem reduction is a fundamental approach to problem solving in many fields, including robotics. To solve a problem using this scheme, we must reduce the problem...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
—We consider the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a pair of mobile robots. The goal is to make the robots meet (or rendezvous) in minimum time such that there is ...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Abstract—Contour features play an important role in object recognition. Psychological experiments have shown that maximum-curvature points are most distinctive along a contour [6...
CRV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Abstract—The idea of an online visual vocabulary is proposed. In contrast to the accepted strategy of generating vocabularies offline, using the k-means clustering over all the ...