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Stereo vision using two PTZ cameras

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Jie ZhouAuthors Info & Claims

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 112, Issue 2

Pages 184 - 194

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2008.02.005

Published: 01 November 2008 Publication History

Abstract

The research of traditional stereo vision is mainly based on static cameras. As PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) cameras are able to obtain multi-view-angle and multi-resolution information, they have received more and more concern in both research and real application. Stereo vision using dual-PTZ-camera system, compared with using dual-static-camera system, is much more challenging. Dual-PTZ-camera system could have more extensive scope of application by combining the merits of PTZ-camera. However, few works about stereo vision with dual-PTZ-camera system were found in literature. In this paper, we propose a novel stereo rectification method for dual-PTZ-camera system, which is essential to greatly increase the efficiency of stereo matching. In dual-PTZ-camera system, the inconsistence of intensities in two camera images, which is caused by camera's self-adjustment of intensity under different illumination condition with different view fields, is also a challenge in stereo matching. In order to deal with this problem, we propose a two-step based stereo matching strategy. Experimental results show that our approach works well.

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Aoki HTochimoto THiroi YItoh Y(2024)Towards Co-Operative Beaming Displays: Dual Steering Projectors for Extended Projection Volume and Head Orientation RangeIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2024.337211830:5(2309-2318)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3372118
Ayaz SKim MPark J(2017)Survey on zoom-lens calibration methods and techniquesMachine Vision and Applications10.1007/s00138-017-0863-128:8(803-818)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00138-017-0863-1
Frosio ITurrini CAlzati A(2016)Camera re-calibration after zooming based on sets of conicsThe Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics10.1007/s00371-015-1089-832:5(663-674)Online publication date: 1-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00371-015-1089-8
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Index Terms

Stereo vision using two PTZ cameras
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Machine learning
    1. Machine learning algorithms
      1. Feature selection
2. Theory of computation
  1. Design and analysis of algorithms
    1. Data structures design and analysis
      1. Pattern matching

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Computer Vision and Image Understanding Volume 112, Issue 2

November, 2008

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Ayaz SKim MPark J(2017)Survey on zoom-lens calibration methods and techniquesMachine Vision and Applications10.1007/s00138-017-0863-128:8(803-818)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2017
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