Low-cost miniature wide-angle imaging for self-motion estimation

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6061-6072

  Tisse, Christel Loic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COSTS; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROOPTICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; ROBOTICS; SILICON; VIDEO CAMERAS;

MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PINHOLE CAMERA; ROBOTIC MICRO FLYER; SELF-MOTION ESTIMATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 24044524958     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006061     Document Type: Article

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