Smart Cameras
Smart Cameras Edited by: Ahmed Nabil Belbachir Although there are many "definitions" of smart cameras offered by the media, camera manufacturers and developers, still no binding definition exists. For the purpose of this book, a smart camera is defined as
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Ahmed Nabil Belbachir Editor
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Editor Ahmed Nabil Belbachir AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Donau-City-Str. 1 1220 Wien Tech Gate Tower, 5. OG Austria [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0952-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0953-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0953-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937051 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Smart cameras are vision systems that do not only take images but also understand them. The primary idea behind this book was to create a pioneering reference to the topic of smart cameras by providing a collection of works in one volume. The resulting book reconciles several disparate scientific, technological, and commercial aspects related to smart cameras: detectors, pixels, signal processing, image sensor architectures, embedded systems, computer vision, sensor network, applications of smart cameras, and market trends. While excellent textbooks exist in many of those fields, there was a need to have a single publication that adopts the perspective of linking the specific mechanisms in the context of smart cameras. The concept of the smart camera has existed for more than three decades. Tremendous progress has been made in the smart camera technologies and approaches both at academic level and at industrial level. Cameras are getting increasingly intelligent and more and more attractive for a wide range of applications: in surveillance and monitoring, in industrial applications, in robotics, in transportation, and in many other fields. This edited book aims to provide background information, fundamentals, an overview of the historical evolution, applications, and the latest trends in smart cameras concepts to professionals, practitioners, and students. It integrates contributions from different authors with outstanding competence and experience in the fields of hardware electronics, signal processing, embedded computing, computer vision, sensors networks, and smart cameras applications in surveillance, machine vision, and the automotive industry. Furthermore, this publication includes a concrete analysis on smart camera market evolution through interviews with market leaders and
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