AIM A comparative study of the images obtained with a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals (19 mm), a dedicated PET camera with BGO crystals and a conventional gamma camera with thin NaI crystals (9.5 mm) was conducted to clarify the clinical feasibility of a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals. METHODS FDG images of 27 patients with malignant tumo...

Smart camera networks are real-time distributed embedded systems that perform computer vision using multiple cameras. This new approach has emerged thanks to a confluence of simultaneous advances in four key disciplines: computer vision, image sensors, embedded computing, and sensor networks. In this chapter, we briefly review and classify smart camera platforms and networks into single smart c...

Camera calibration is a crucial prerequisite for the retrieval of metric information from images. The problem of camera calibration is the computation of camera intrinsic parameters (i.e., coefficients of geometric distortions, principle distance and principle point) and extrinsic parameters (i.e., 3D spatial orientations: ω, ϕ, κ, and 3D spatial translations: t(x), t(y), t(z)). The intrinsic c...

in many autonomous mobile applications, robots must be capable of analyzing motion of moving objects in their environment. duringmovement of robot the quality of images is affected by quakes of camera which cause high errors in image processing outputs. in thispaper, we propose a novel method to effectively overcome this problem using neural networks and kalman filtering theory. thistechnique u...

objective: after introduction of digital radiography into dentistry several methods of image acquisition were accessible in the field of dentistry. in many instances it is necessary to digitize analog images. there is no overall acceptable method for image digitization so all different types of images can be comparable. the objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of diffe...

Let’s design a simple camera system – a system that can record an image of an object or scene in the 3D world. This camera system can be designed by placing a barrier with a small aperture between the 3D object and a photographic film or sensor. As Figure 1 shows, each point on the 3D object emits multiple rays of light outwards. Without a barrier in place, every point on the film will be influ...

Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras are becoming more and more popular in computer vision. In many applications 3D information delivered by a ToF camera is used, and it is very important to know the camera’s extrinsic and intrinsic parameters, as well as precise depth information. A straightforward algorithm to calibrate a ToF camera is to use a standard color camera calibration procedure [12], on the...

The RGB signals generated by different cameras are not equal for the same scene. Therefore, cameras are characterized based on a CIE standard colorimetric observer. One method of deriving a colorimetric characterization matrix between camera RGB output signals and CIE XYZ tristimulus values is least squares polynomial modeling. Yet, this involves tedious experiments to obtain a camera transfer ...