In this paper, we propose a fast and easy camera calibration and 3-D measurement method with an active stereo vision system for handling moving objects whose geometric models are known. We adopt the stereo vision system that can change its direction to follow the moving objects. To gain the extrinsic camera parameters in real time, a baseline stereo camera (parallel stereo camera) model and a p...

Camera calibration is essential to obtain 3D information from 2D image, for underwater camera self-calibration, because the linear model can not accurately describe the imaging geometry of real cameras, the underwater camera nonlinear model and its calibration method are studied. According to the relationship between underwater and air in the camera focal length, principal point and no vertical...

PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera networks have an important role in surveillance systems. They have the ability to direct the attention to interesting events that occur in the scene. In order to achieve such behavior the cameras in the network use a process known as sensor slaving: one (or more) master camera monitors a wide area and tracks moving targets so as to provide the positional information t...

This paper describes an implementation of the Cubic Rational Polynomial Camera model developed as part of the FOCUS project. FOCUS ([1]) is on ongoing “shared vision” IR&D project jointly sponsored by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space (LMMSS/Sunnyvale) and General Electric CR&D. A cubic camera has the advantage that all cameras, such as projective, affine and the linear pushbroom, which map th...

Previous work on camera calibration, and particularly work on self-calibration, has assumed that the camera is well modeled by an ideal, relatively simple, parametric model. Real camera systems, however, diverge signiicantly from a simple pinhole perspective imaging model. Therefore, parametric calibration models are typically extended to include parameters which model distortions from perspect...

This paper describes the temporal geometric constrained bundle adjustment method for exterior orientations of individual images acquired from an aerial multi-head camera system without platform calibration parameters and navigation solutions. The aerial multihead camera system provides a single synthetic image, which has large coverage, from precisely estimated exterior orientation parameters (...

The current methods of turfgrass evaluations are often based on human-based assessment methods. However, eliminating subjective errors from such evaluations is often impossible. This research compared the accuracy of human-based and digital image processing-based methods for quality assessment of turfgrasses. Four turfgrass plots were evaluated using the two mentioned methods. In the human-base...

The current methods of turfgrass evaluations are often based on human-based assessment methods. However, eliminating subjective errors from such evaluations is often impossible. This research compared the accuracy of human-based and digital image processing-based methods for quality assessment of turfgrasses. Four turfgrass plots were evaluated using the two mentioned methods. In the human-base...

BACKGROUND Cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) solid-state detectors have been recently introduced into the field of myocardial perfusion imaging. The aim of this study was to prospectively compare the diagnostic performance of the CZT high-speed gamma camera (Discovery NM 530c) with that of the standard 3-head gamma camera in the same group of patients. METHODS AND RESULTS The study group consisted...