ACHIEVING HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO USING SCALABLE CAPTURE, PROCESSING, AND DISPLAY

Donald Tanguay, H. Harlyn Baker, Dan Gelb

2006

Abstract

New video applications are becoming possible with the advent of several enabling technologies: multicamera capture, increased PC bus bandwidth, multicore processors, and advanced graphics cards. We present a commercially-available multicamera system and a software architecture that, coupled with industry trends, create a situation in which video capture, processing, and display are all increasingly scalable in the number of video streams. Leveraging this end-to-end scalability, we introduce a novel method of generating high-resolution, panoramic video. While traditional point-based mosaicking requires significant image overlap, we gain significant advantage by calibrating using shared observations of lines to constrain the placement of images. Two non-overlapping cameras do not share any scene points; however, seeing different parts of the same line does constrain their spatial alignment. Using lines allows us to reduce overlap in the source images, thereby maximizing final mosaic resolution. We show results of synthesizing a 6 megapixel video camera from 18 smaller cameras, all on a single PC and at 30 Hz.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tanguay D., Harlyn Baker H. and Gelb D. (2006). ACHIEVING HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO USING SCALABLE CAPTURE, PROCESSING, AND DISPLAY . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 162-169. DOI: 10.5220/0001374301620169

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={Donald Tanguay and H. Harlyn Baker and Dan Gelb},
title={ACHIEVING HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO USING SCALABLE CAPTURE, PROCESSING, AND DISPLAY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={162-169},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001374301620169},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - ACHIEVING HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO USING SCALABLE CAPTURE, PROCESSING, AND DISPLAY
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Tanguay D.
AU - Harlyn Baker H.
AU - Gelb D.
PY - 2006
SP - 162
EP - 169
DO - 10.5220/0001374301620169