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A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.

A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.

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what's the difference among rgb-d camera, depth camera, 3d camera, and stereo camera?

I'm very new in this field so my question may be very stupid. I apologize for this at first. I'm trying to use a proper camera to run a SLAM algorithm. As suggested by some people, stereo camera may be a good choice. When I searched online, I found…
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How can I make a motion tracking camera?

I'm looking into CCTV, and am interested in minimising costs by having a motion tracking camera cover an area that would otherwise utilise multiple cameras. There is already something like this on the market manufactured by a company called…
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Choose and connect a camera to a robot

There are tons of cameras in devices around us these days. There are used photo cameras, smartphones, tablets at my home gathering dust. I wonder, what the easiest way could be to get a camera module from some device, connect it to my robot project…
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which type of camera should be used for detecting road lanes for good processing in matlab

What are the parameters which should be selected to choose camera for lane detection system.What parameters should be kept in mind (like picture quality,frame rate,cost e.t.c). Which camera will suit best to my application.
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Camera Pose Estimation

What is the minimum number of point correspondences required for camera pose estimation given the perspective projections of points with known world coordinates?
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What type of camera parameters are ideal for image processing on a moving platform?

What type of camera or camera properties should I look for that would be ideal for performing image processing in a moving environment? I'm researching the sensor requirements for processing video in real time on a mobile robot. In a past…
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Determining time difference of image capturing in multi camera setup

it is widely discussed in this forum, how to sync multiple cameras (e.g. best done via hardware trigger). Now I'd like to know how to actually determine the time delay between two image streams and the overall offset between a real event, and the…
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six cameras selection for jetson xavier

What six cameras do you recommend for a university project using a jetson xavier nx? I am getting into self driving from a software point of view and camera selection becomes very difficult for me. I know that things like hdr or wide visual field…
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Is there a specific way or module I can use to stream video data from a camera hooked to an Arduino Uno board?

I'm currently thinking about the feasibility of creating a robot which streams live video footage and other data such as temperature, humidity, etc. to a smartphone. Is it possible to do this on an Arduino Uno board? Or is a Raspberry Pi board…
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How to get a wired live feed from camera to phone

I need a clear video live feed from a camera to an android phone. The connection does not have to be wireless because i have to use it without any internet. The camera and phone will be 2 or 3 meters apart at most. It also has to be battery powered…
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What materials can I put in front of a RGB camera and LED IR lights to hide the sensors as much as possible?

I'm making a consumer camera prototype and want to make the front look as clean as possible. Right now I use a completely transparent material and the camera and the IR Lights (with their red hue) are clearly visible. I'd like to move to a dark (as…
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High speed usb webcam

I am looking for a high speed usb webcam. The plan is to rotate the camera at about 20-30 revolutions per second, the problem is this requires me to have a framerate of about 120fps (depending on the lense...) and secondary the exposure time needs…
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