New method for overcoming ill-conditioning in vanishing-point-based camera calibration

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  He, Xiao Chen ^a   Yung, Nelson H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Ill conditioning; Near parallel; Pan tilt zoom camera action; Vanishing point; Visual traffic surveillance

Indexed keywords

ILL-CONDITIONING; PAN-TILT-ZOOM CAMERA ACTION; VANISHING POINT; VISUAL TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PIXELS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 34447267714     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2714991     Document Type: Article

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