Webcam geo-localization using aggregate light levels

2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 132-138

  Jacobs, Nathan ^a   Miskell, Kylia ^b   Pless, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; IMAGE INTENSITIES; LIGHT LEVEL; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; STATIC CAMERAS; WEBCAMS; ZENITH ANGLE;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 79952502204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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