Camera calibration and light source orientation from solar shadows

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-72

  Cao, Xiaochun ^a   Foroosh, Hassan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Light source orientation estimation; Planar homology; Solar shadow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIGHT SOURCES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

CAMERA CALIBRATION; LIGHT SOURCE ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; PLANAR HOMOLOGY; SOLAR SHADOW;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33845783436     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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