Active Computer Vision by Cooperative Focus and Stereo
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Eric Paul Krotkov.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer New York
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1989
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xii, 160 pages 59 illustrations).
SERIES
Series Title
Springer series in perception engineering.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1 Introduction --;1.1 Active Exploratory Sensing --;1.2 Research Domain --;1.3 Overview --;2 An Agile Stereo Camera System --;2.1 Camera System Hardware --;2.2 Device Controllers --;2.3 Discussion --;3 Focus Ranging --;3.1 Analysis of Defocus --;3.2 Criterion Functions Measuring Focus Quality --;3.3 Criterion Function Implementation and Evaluation --;3.4 Search for Criterion Function Maximum --;3.5 Computing Range from Focusing --;3.6 Discussion --;4 Stereo with Verging Cameras --;4.1 Computing Stereo Disparities --;4.2 Computing Range using Calibrated Stereo Disparities --;4.3 Error Analysis --;4.4 Experimental Results --;4.5 Discussion --;5 Cooperative Ranging --;5.1 Cooperative Focusing and Stereo --;5.2 Integration Policy --;5.3 Experimental Results --;5.4 Discussion --;6 Merging Multiple Uncertain Views --;6.1 Problem Definition and Solution Approaches --;6.2 Transformation Parameters --;6.3 Object Location Uncertainty --;6.4 Transformed Locations --;6.5 Experimental Results --;6.6 Discussion --;7 Modeling Sparse Range Data --;7.1 Model Primitives --;7.2 Clustering --;7.3 Object-Oriented Representation --;7.4 Results --;7.5 Discussion --;8 Conclusion --;8.1 Review --;8.2 Extensions --;8.3 Connections --;8.4 Synopsis --;Appendix I Object Position and Disparity --;Appendix II Calibration Procedures --;II.1 Aperture --;I1.2 Zoom --;II.3 Focus --;I1.4 Vergence --;1I.5 Platform --;II.6 Discussion --;References.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book addresses an area of perception engineering which deals with constructive processes. As the field of perception engineering seems to be of growing scientific and applied importance, both practitioners and researchers in machine perception will find this book a valuable addition to their libraries.