Technical foundation and calibration methods for time-of-flight cameras

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8200 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-24

  Lefloch, Damien ^a   Nair, Rahul ^b,c   Lenzen, Frank ^b,c   Schaf̈er, Henrik ^b,c   Streeter, Lee ^d   Cree, Michael J ^d   Koch, Reinhard ^e   Kolb, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CALIBRATION METHOD; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; PHASE RECONSTRUCTION; REAL APPLICATIONS; SENSOR CALIBRATION; STATE OF THE ART; TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERAS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84893760189     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44964-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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