TY - JOUR
T1 - A Hybrid Camera System for High-Resolutionization of Target Objects in Omnidirectional Images
AU - Premachandra, Chinthaka
AU - Tamaki, Masaya
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 28, 2020; revised February 9, 2021; accepted February 9, 2021. Date of publication February 12, 2021; date of current version April 5, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Branding Research Fund of Shibaura Institute of Technology. The associate editor coordinating the review of this article and approving it for publication was Prof. Aime Lay-Ekuakille. (Corresponding author: Chinthaka Premachandra.) Chinthaka Premachandra is with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan (e-mail: chintaka@shibaura-it.ac.jp).
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PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - Recent improvements in cameras and image processing techniques have advanced research on object detection and classification. The cameras capable of capturing omnidirectional images are advantageous for detecting surrounding objects, we focus on their usage method. Omnidirectional camera images generally have lower resolution than available cameras, leading to difficulty in identifying objects farther from the camera. To address this problem, we propose a hybrid camera system that first detects indistinct target regions during omnidirectional viewing, then uses a pan-tilt camera to capture a high-resolution image of the target. We also propose an algorithm for reducing the number of required complementary shots to realize efficient shooting.
AB - Recent improvements in cameras and image processing techniques have advanced research on object detection and classification. The cameras capable of capturing omnidirectional images are advantageous for detecting surrounding objects, we focus on their usage method. Omnidirectional camera images generally have lower resolution than available cameras, leading to difficulty in identifying objects farther from the camera. To address this problem, we propose a hybrid camera system that first detects indistinct target regions during omnidirectional viewing, then uses a pan-tilt camera to capture a high-resolution image of the target. We also propose an algorithm for reducing the number of required complementary shots to realize efficient shooting.
KW - Omnidirectional camera
KW - PT camera control
KW - high-resolution image capturing
KW - hybrid camera system
KW - indistinct image region
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U2 - 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3059102
DO - 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3059102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100844713
VL - 21
SP - 10752
EP - 10760
JO - IEEE Sensors Journal
JF - IEEE Sensors Journal
SN - 1530-437X
IS - 9
M1 - 9353586
ER -