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The enabling technologies of increasing PC bus bandwidth, multicore processors, and advanced graphics processors combined with a high-perform-ance multi-image camera system are leading to new ways of considering video. We describe scalable varied-resolution video capture, presenting a novel method of generating multi-resolution dialable-shape panoramas, a line-based calibration method that achieves optimal multi-imager global registration across possibly disjoint views, and a technique for recasting mosaicking homographies for arbitrary planes. Results show synthesis of a 7.5 megapixel (MP) video stream from 22 synchronized uncompressed imagers operating at 30 Hz on a single PC.
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Baker, H.H., Tanguay, D. (2006). A Multi-imager Camera for Variable-Definition Video (XDTV). In: Gunsel, B., Jain, A.K., Tekalp, A.M., Sankur, B. (eds) Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security. MRCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11848035_78
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