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Visually Realistic Mapping of a Planar Environment with Stereo

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Experimental Robotics VII

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences ((LNCIS,volume 271))

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We present a hybrid technique for constructing geometrically accurate, visually realistic planar environments from stereo vision information. The technique is unique in estimating camera motion from two sources: range information from stereo, and visual alignment of images.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Luca Iocchi

  2. SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Kurt Konolige

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Max Bajracharya

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA

    Daniela Rus

  2. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Sanjiv Singh

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Iocchi, L., Konolige, K., Bajracharya, M. (2001). Visually Realistic Mapping of a Planar Environment with Stereo. In: Rus, D., Singh, S. (eds) Experimental Robotics VII. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45118-8_52

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