Use of a single reference image in visual processing of polyhedral objects.

He Yong.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-72).Abstracts in English and Chinese.ABSTRACT --- p.iACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.vTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.viLIST OF FIGURES --- p.viiiLIST OF TABLES --- p.xChapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter 2 --- PRELIMINARY --- p.6Chapter 3 --- IMAGE MOSAICING FOR SINGLY VISIBLE SURFACES --- p.9Chapter 3.1 --- Background --- p.9Chapter 3.2 --- Correspondence Inference Mechanism --- p.13Chapter 3.3 --- Seamless Lining up of Surface Boundary --- p.17Chapter 3.4 --- Experimental Result --- p.21Chapter 3.5 --- Summary of Image Mosaicing Work --- p.32Chapter 4 --- MOBILE ROBOT SELF-LOCALIZATION FROM MONOCULAR VISION --- p.33Chapter 4.1 --- Background --- p.33Chapter 4.2 --- Problem Definition --- p.37Chapter 4.3 --- Our Strategy of Localizing the Mobile Robot --- p.38Chapter 4.3.1 --- Establishing Correspondences --- p.40Chapter 4.3.2 --- Determining Position from Factorizing E-matrix --- p.49Chapter 4.3.3 --- Improvement on the Factorization Result --- p.55Chapter 4.4 --- Experimental Result --- p.56Chapter 4.5 --- Summary of Mobile Robot Self-localization Work --- p.62Chapter 5 --- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK --- p.63APPENDIX --- p.67BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.6