Coordinated Steering for an Uncalibrated Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Array. Singh, S. P. N. & Axelrod, K. 2010.
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Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras complement many robotic applications. A coordinated camera steering method is presented to orient a set of commodity cameras to gaze at the same object or area of interest in the workspace. This method solves for a relevant camera model (intrinsics and extrinsics) and uses this to compute the geometry required for motion relative to a tracking signal. This paper modifies auto-calibration of intrinsics and self-surveying methods of extrinsics for on-line gaze control operations over off-line reconstruction. To this feature tracking is added for feedback to compensate for servo imprecision and asynchrony. The performance of the approach is validated through a cooperative steering task on an array of PTZ cameras. Results show successful automatic steering and mean calibrations within 5% of estimates generated using reference calibration techniques.
@CONFERENCE{acra2010.camerasteering,
  author = {S. P. N. Singh and Kit Axelrod},
  title = {Coordinated Steering for an Uncalibrated Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Array},
  booktitle = {Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation},
  year = {2010},
  abstract = {Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras complement many robotic applications.
	A coordinated camera steering method is presented to orient a set
	of commodity cameras to gaze at the same object or area of interest
	in the workspace. This method solves for a relevant camera model
	(intrinsics and extrinsics) and uses this to compute the geometry
	required for motion relative to a tracking signal.
	
	
	This paper modifies auto-calibration of intrinsics and self-surveying
	methods of extrinsics for on-line gaze control operations over off-line
	reconstruction. To this feature tracking is added for feedback to
	compensate for servo imprecision and asynchrony. The performance
	of the approach is validated through a cooperative steering task
	on an array of PTZ cameras. Results show successful automatic steering
	and mean calibrations within 5\% of estimates generated using reference
	calibration techniques.},
  pdf = {acra2010.camerasteering.pdf},
  url = {https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/Program+Timetable}
}

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