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Road-Crossing Landmarks Detection by Outdoor Mobile Robots
Aneesh Chand and Shin‘ichi Yuta
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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