Calibrating an outdoor distributed camera network using laser range finder data

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 303-308

  Ortega, Agustin ^a   Dias, Bruno ^b   Teniente, Ernesto ^a   Bernardino, Alexandre ^b   Gaspar, José ^b   Andrade Cetto, Juan ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCESS; CAMERA CALIBRATION; CAMERA NETWORK; DIRECT MAPPING; GROUND PLANES; HOMOGRAPHIES; IMAGE COORDINATES; LARGE CITIES; LASER RANGE FINDERS; OUTDOOR CAMERAS; PRACTICAL METHOD; ROBOT DETECTION; ROBOT NAVIGATION SYSTEM; ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY; SEMI-AUTOMATED; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE; VIEW FIELD;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RANGE FINDERS; RANGE FINDING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 76249122220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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