"With its focus on autonomous and mobile service robots for indoor work, this textbook is the first to teach the techniques used for vision-based projects. While a basic knowledge of informatics is assumed, navigation, camera types and camera calibration, are structured so as to illustrate the steps needed in developing further applications for video-based robot projects. In addition, the author's practical approach enables a comprehensive understanding of how to deal with such specific problems as inhomogeneous illumination or occlusion. For advanced students in physics, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, and motor engineering as well as specialists in computer vision and robotics."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.