Illumination-based synchronization of high-speed vision sensors

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5530-5547

  Hou, Lei ^a   Kagami, Shingo ^a   Hashimoto, Koichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Camera synchronization; Phase locked loop; Visible light communication

Indexed keywords

CAMERA SYNCHRONIZATIONS; DIGITAL COMPUTATION; HIGH SPEED VISION; ILLUMINATION SOURCES; INTENSITY-MODULATED; PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL); SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS;

PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SENSORS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MOTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77954791845     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100605530     Document Type: Article

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