A relational approach to zoom tracking for digital still cameras

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1051-1059

  Peddigari, V ^b   Kehtarnavaz, N ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital still camera; Focus control; Real time implementation of zoom tracking; Relational zoom tracking; Trace curves

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STILL CAMERA; RELATIONAL CURVES; RELATIONAL ZOOM TRACKING; ZOOM MOTOR;

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; FOCUSING; RAY TRACING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

DIGITAL CAMERAS;

EID: 33845748731     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2005.1561824     Document Type: Article

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