Key hardware of the systems involves high-resolution (1 K, 2 K, 4 K) CCD camera; extensive, programmable logic devices/arrays for fast pre-processing of camera signals to identify defect candidates in real-time; trainable classification systems based on NN or SVM, user friendly man machine interface (MMI) and extensive archival facility.
The tracking module has three major processing steps of camera calibration, vehicle segmentation and vehicle tracking.
One limitation of the system is that the closed loop period in image control is between 20 and 30 Hz limited by the processing of the camera information.
As a consequence, the research work presented in this paper investigates several novel uses of machine vision and ANNs in the processing of single camera multi-positional images for 2D and 3D object recognition and classification.
We decided to go with a multicore system in order to enable more streamlined parallel data processing of multiple cameras per computer.
I hold patent US 7,194,146 B2, a method for computer image processing of telescope-received camera images of celestial objects.
Demosaicking is the first step of image processing of digital still cameras and has been integrated into the design of a variety of digital still cameras.
Instead of relying on vendor-supplied software development kits (SDKs) which would have to be reintegrated into the processing software for potentially every type of camera, a generic camera controller was written.
As discussed in the paper, the proposed approaches to parallelization provide sufficient performance even for the future generation of 8K video processing systems, currently limited by availability of camera and display hardware.
After completion of command processing, the camera controller re-enters the wait state in order to accept new commands.
One part of the camera's processing of the raw image data is to adjust the colors so that the brightest, fully reflective, objects appear white rather than the true yellowish or bluish colors of light they reflect under incandescent light or open sky (and everything else appears to have the mix of colors it would under the sunlight our eyes are calibrated for).
