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A Vision System for Environment Representation: From Landscapes to Landmarks

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In this paper a complete strategy for scene modeling from sensory data acquired in a natural environment is defined. This strategy is applied to outdoor mobile robotics and goes from environment recognition to landmark extraction. In this work, environment is understood as a specific kind of landscape, for instance, a prairie, a forest, a desert, etc. A landmark is defined as a remarkable object in the environment. In the context of outdoor mobile robotics a landmark has to be useful to accomplish localization and navigation tasks.

This research was funded by CONACyT, México

This research was funded by the PCP program (Colombia-COLCIENCIAS-and France) and by the ECOS Nord project number C00M01.

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  1. ITESM Campus Ciudad de México, Calle del puente 222, Tlalpan, México D.F.

    Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Benjamín Tovar & Claudia Esteves

  2. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cra 7 No 40-62, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

    Carlos Parra

  3. Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS-CNRS), 7, Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Michel Devy

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  1. Computer Science Section, Electrical Engineering Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Av. IPN 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, D.F. 07300, Mexico, Mexico

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  2. Computer Science Department, ITESM-Mexico City, Calle del Puente 222, Tlalpan, D.F. 14380, Mexico, Mexico

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Murrieta-Cid, R., Parra, C., Devy, M., Tovar, B., Esteves, C. (2002). A Vision System for Environment Representation: From Landscapes to Landmarks. In: Coello Coello, C.A., de Albornoz, A., Sucar, L.E., Battistutti, O.C. (eds) MICAI 2002: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2313. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46016-0_2

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