SMART CAMERAS AS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

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CONTENTS:
Introduction.
Standard vision system v/s smart cameras.
Smart camera architecture.
Gesture recognition and object detection.
Classification of smart cameras.
Centralized v/s distributed data
processing.
Applications of smart camera.
 INTRODUCTION
Smart cameras are vision systems which
are capable of extracting application
specific information.
Identifies objects and body parts in a
scene.
The whole hardware fits into a one
compact housing.
 Standard vision systems v/s Smart
cameras
Advantages of PC based cameras:

• Flexibility

• Power and Speed

Drawbacks of PC based cameras:

• Cost
• Simplicity
• Integration
• Reliability
Block Diagram of Smart Camera

Smart Camera Architecture Block Diagram

Image Processing Electronics

Image Processing Electronics Block Diagram

 Static Grey Scale Thresholding Algorithm

IF (PIXEL GRAY IS > ( UPPER)) OR (PIXEL GRAY IS < (LOWER)) THEN

TRANSMIT PIXEL
ELSE
IGNORE PIXEL
 Gesture recognition and Object
Detection

Low level processing

o Region extraction
o Contour following
o Ellipse fitting
o Graph following

• High level Processing

Low Level Processing

Region extraction
Contour following
Ellipse fitting
Graph matching
 High Level Processing
• This process compares the motion pattern
of each part of the body.

• Evaluates the overall body activity.

Classification of Smart Camera
 Integrated smart cameras.
◦ Single-chip smart cameras.
◦ Embedded smart cameras.
◦ Stand-alone smart cameras.
Compact-system smart cameras.
Distributed smart cameras.
Centralized Processing
Centralized Processing
Distributed Processing
Distributed Processing
Applications
•Industrial machine vision
Traffic surveillance
Object detection
Other applications
Non contact measurements

Barcode reading

Gaming applications

Robot guidance
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