A miniaturized active vision system
Bederson, B.B.; Wallace, R.S.; Schwartz, E.L.
Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol. IV. Conference D: Architectures for Vision and Pattern Recognition, Proceedings., 11th IAPR International Conference on
Volume , Issue , 30 Aug-3 Sep 1992 Page(s):58 - 61
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICPR.1992.202129
Summary:The authors have developed a prototype miniaturized active vision
system whose sensor architecture is based on a logarithmically
structured space-variant pixel geometry. This system integrates a CCD
sensor, miniature pan-tilt actuator, controller, general purpose
processors and display. Due to the ability of space-variant sensors to
cover large work-spaces yet provide high acuity with an extremely small
number of pixels, space-variant active vision system architectures
provide the potential for radical reductions in system size and cost.
The authors describe a prototype space-variant active vision system
which performs tasks such as moving object tracking and functions as a
video telephone. The potential application domains for systems of this
type include vision systems for mobile robots and robot manipulators,
traffic monitoring systems, security and surveillance, and consumer
video communications
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