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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
15 years agoRealtime image processing
I'm curious whether it's feasible to monitor an omnidirectional video feed, detect an anomoly and determine the azimuth and elevation of that anomoly. For example, if an omnidirectional camera was "...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
15 years agoI don't believe it's possible with a single camera source. Mainly because the elevation would be impossible to calculate without more detail about the object. IE it's exact size, and relative size on the screen, compared to some reference. However, if you have two or more cameras, with a fixed distance between them, you could then triangulate to the object to get that information.
Once you have that information, sending the coordinate to a secondary device for closer inspection is easily accomplished. Pete