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This paper reviews approaches adopted in the UK and the USA to the establishment and implementation of accessibility standards for outdoor environments. The history and current position of standards for built environments are outlined for both the US and the UK. The situation regarding United

Abstract: This paper deals with road detection in an outdoor environment. By comparison with preceding approaches, which use various sensors, our system uses only a monocular camera. In this paper, we propose a novel approach- a fusion of frequency based vanishing point estimation

and other research outputs Involving persons with dementia in the evaluation of outdoor environments

The paper presents an approach to reactive navigation in crosscountry terrains. The approach relies on a particular probabilistic obstacle detection procedure, that describes the area perceived by a pair of stereo cameras as a set of polygonal cells. To generate the motion commands on the basis of this terrain description, we present some improvements and adaptations to the classical potential elds technique. The algorithms have been implemented within an instance of a generic software architecture, and experimented with the robot Lama. 1 1

in these networks. In this paper, we review localization techniques and evaluate the effectiveness of a very simple connectivity-metric method for localization in outdoor environments that makes use of the inherent radio-frequency (RF) communications capabilities of these devices. A fixed number of reference points

This thesis addresses the issues of scale for practical implementations of simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) in extensive outdoor environments. Building an incremental map while also using it for localisation is of prime importance for mobile robot navigation but, until recently, has

This paper provides a brief, non-exhaustive overview of the status of the application of CFD in building performance simulation for the outdoor environment. It focuses on four topics: (1) pedestrian wind environment around buildings; (2) wind-driven rain on building facades; (3) convective heat

Abstract. Classification of objects is an important task in computer vision. In the case that the objects are occlusion or outdoor environment, classification of objects is a challenging problem. The primary goal of this paper is to classify the object into two classes: human and car in an outdoor

Summary. This paper presents a novel unsupervised sensor fusion method to detect artificial objects in outdoor environments. We define artificial objects present in outdoor environments using structure and appearance information: an artificial object is composed of several smooth surfaces