Calibrating a pan-tilt camera head
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This paper describes a method for calibrating a pan-tilt camera head. The key feature of the method is that the camera, the pan-tilt unit, and the relationship between the camera and the pan-tilt unit, are calibrated independently. This paper develops a geometric model of the pan-tilt camera head and presents procedures to estimate the values of the unknown model parameters. Target image repositioning is discussed as an application of using a calibrated pan-tilt camera head.
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