What do the sun and the sky tell us about the camera?

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-51

  Lalonde, Jean François ^a   Narasimhan, Srinivasa G ^a   Efros, Alexei A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Camera geolocation; Physics based vision; Sky; Time lapse video

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; CAMERA CALIBRATION; CAMERA PARAMETER; CONTINENTAL US; FOCAL LENGTHS; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; ILLUMINATION GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEQUENCE; LARGE DATABASE; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOW QUALITIES; PHYSICS BASED VISION; RELIGHTING; SKY MODELS; SUN POSITION; TWO SOURCES; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEBCAMS; ZENITH ANGLE;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER VISION; GEOMETRY; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; MICROSENSORS; SUN;

CAMERAS;

EID: 77951274752     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-009-0291-4     Document Type: Article

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