Discrete camera calibration from pixel streams

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-209

  Grossmann, Etienne ^a   Gaspar, José António ^b   Orabona, Francesco ^c  

^a Tyzx Inc   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distance geometry; Information theory; Non parametric camera calibration; Sphere embedding; Statistical signal processing

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CALIBRATION; DISTANCE GEOMETRY; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC CAMERA CALIBRATION; STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; INFORMATION THEORY; PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS; PIXELS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 74449089674     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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