Automatic calibration of fish-eye cameras from automotive video sequences

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-148

  Friel, M ^a   Hughes, C ^a   Denny, P ^b   Jones, E ^a   Glavin, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b VALEO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED COSTS; AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; AUTOMOTIVE ENVIRONMENT; BLIND ZONES; CAR MANUFACTURERS; DIRECT IMPACT; EYE LENS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FISH-EYE; FISH-EYE CAMERAS; FISH-EYE LENS; IMAGE FRAMES; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; MASS PRODUCTION; POST PROCESSING; PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION TIME; RADIAL DISTORTIONS; REAL-WORLD; STRAIGHT LINES; TIME AND SPACE; VIDEO SEQUENCES;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; CAMERAS; COST REDUCTION; FISH; IMAGE PROCESSING; LENSES; VEHICLES; VIDEO RECORDING;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 77953002615     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2009.0052     Document Type: Article

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