Calibration of an active binocular head

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 426-442

  Shih, Sheng Wen ^b   Hung, Yi Ping ^a,c   Lin, Wei Song ^d  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active vision; Binocular head; Head calibration; Head eye calibration; Motorized lens calibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACTIVE BINOCULAR HEADS; ACTIVE VISION; MOTORIZED FOCUS LENS (MFL) CAMERA;

BINOCULAR VISION;

EID: 0032122803     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.686704     Document Type: Article

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