IEEE

Robust Visual Odometry Using Rigidly-Bundled Arbitrarily-Arranged Multi-Cameras

Abstract: Making multi-camera visual SLAM systems easier to set up and more robust to the environment is attractive for vision robots. Existing monocular and binocular vision SLAM systems have narrow ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Santa Clara County to stop using Flock Safety cameras in several cities after privacy concerns

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Santa Clara County will no longer use Flock Safety as the primary vendor for their license plate readers in Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Altos Hills after a vote by the Board ...
PC Magazine

I Love Shooting With Old Cameras. Here's What I’ve Learned From Years of Buying Used

New photo gear can be overpriced and sometimes it's hard to get. The secondhand market delivers better value if you know what to look for. These are my best tips. Images, and the devices that capture ...
digitalcameraworld

This AI tech creates a 3D map of sports fields in real-time, enabling you to put a virtual camera anywhere. Surely I’m not the only creative who’s worried?

I’ve just seen an Instagram video that’s left me with mixed feelings about the future of videography, photography and sports. Jason Fisher, former head of production at Disney, Paramount and AMC, ...
BGR

5 Uncomfortable Truths About Using Ring Cameras

The Ring Video Doorbell, originally released in 2014 and later known as Amazon Ring, was supposed to be a simple means of connecting your front doorbell to your smartphone and letting you see who's at ...
Missoulian

Use of license plate reader cameras in Missoula raises privacy concerns

Businesses, including some in Missoula, are using a new network of automated license plate scanners, known as "Flock" cameras, to keep their premises and properties secure.
digitalcameraworld

This NASA-made camera photographs the invisible – and the tech is based on an accessory photographers already use

Imagine being given the task of shooting a video of something invisible: Wind. The challenge is both common and integral enough that NASA tasked itself with building a camera up to the task – and it ...
Wired

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. The ad ...
IEEE

Deep-BrownConrady: Prediction of Camera Calibration and Distortion Parameters Using Deep Learning and Synthetic Data

Abstract: This research addresses the challenge of camera calibration and distortion parameter prediction from a single image using deep learning models. The main contributions of this work are: (1) ...
Mashable

Ring cameras may plan to track people using AI, according to leaked emails

Ring was the subject of significant backlash earlier this month, after a poorly received Super Bowl ad drew attention to its surveillance cameras' AI-powered Search Party feature. Though advertised as ...
Carscoops

Massachusetts Has Cameras Everywhere, Now Lawmakers Want To Use Them To Fine You

Massachusetts already allows police to track vehicles through widespread automatic license plate readers. What the state hasn’t allowed to this point, at least for now, is similar technology that can ...