Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate processing video bit stream data is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to encode surface normals data with point cloud geometry data included in the video bit stream data for reconstruction of objects within the video bit stream data based on the surface normals data and a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors.

Abstract: A surveillance system including a fixed camera and one or more temporary cameras and a control means coupled to the fixed camera and the one or more temporary cameras is disclosed. The control means is configured to extend coverage of the fixed camera using the one or more temporary cameras coupled to the fixed camera. Each of the one or more temporary cameras includes one or more sensors and is configured to be deployed and adjusted based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors of the one or more temporary cameras and from one or more fixed camera sensors co-located with the fixed camera.

Abstract: Methods and systems for scanning an intraoral cavity of a patient provide capturing one or more viewfinder images of the intraoral cavity and scanning the intraoral cavity with an intraoral scanner to generate one or more topography scans of the intraoral cavity. The one or more topography scans may correspond to the one or more viewfinder images. The methods and systems further provide capturing a viewfinder image of a portion of the intraoral cavity, the viewfinder image overlapping with the one or more viewfinder images. An area of overlap of the viewfinder image with the one or more viewfinder images can be determined. One or more indicators of the area of overlap can be displayed on one or more locations of a display in order to provide guidance for positioning a field of view of the intraoral scanner.

Abstract: A vehicle imaging system for a vehicle including a rear viewing device configured to be located at a lateral side of the vehicle. The vehicle imaging system including an image capturing unit and a display unit. The image capturing unit is configured to take images of surroundings of the vehicle, is located in the proximity of the rear viewing device, includes an optical axis and a field of view, and is configured such that the field of view of the image capturing unit generally extends rearward until a forward limit of a field of view of the rear viewing device. The display unit is configured to communicate with the image capturing unit and displays the images, and is adapted to be located in an interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic detection and insetting of digital streams into a 360 video. Various examples of such regions of interest to the user include, without limitation, content displayed on various electronic displays or written on electronic paper (electronic ink), content projected on various surfaces using electronic projectors, content of paper documents appearing in the 360-degree video and/or content written on white (black) boards inside the 360-degree video. For some content, such as whiteboards, paper documents or paintings in a museum, a participant (or curator) could have taken pictures of the regions, again stored digitally somewhere and available for download. These digital streams with content of interest to the user are obtained and then inset onto the 360-degree view generated from the raw 360-degree video feed, giving users the ability to view them at their native high resolution.

Abstract: Described are machine vision systems and methods for simultaneous kinematic and hand-eye calibration. A machine vision system includes a robot and a 3D sensor in communication with a control system. The control system is configured to move the robot to poses, and for each pose: capture a 3D image of calibration target features and robot joint angles. The control system is configured to obtain initial values for robot calibration parameters, and determine initial values for hand-eye calibration parameters based on the initial values for the robot calibration parameters, the 3D image, and joint angles. The control system is configured to determine final values for the hand-eye calibration parameters and robot calibration parameters by refining the hand-eye calibration parameters and robot calibration parameters to minimize a cost function.

Abstract: A system and method for image localization based on semantic segmentation are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving image data from an image generating device mounted on an autonomous vehicle; performing semantic segmentation or other object detection on the received image data to identify and label objects in the image data and produce semantic label image data; identifying extraneous objects in the semantic label image data; removing the extraneous objects from the semantic label image data; comparing the semantic label image data to a baseline semantic label map; and determining a vehicle location of the autonomous vehicle based on information in a matching baseline semantic label map.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a non-visible light source configured to emit first excitation light and second excitation light onto a target, an image sensor configured to generate an image including the target excited by at least one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light to emit fluorescence, and an output device configured to output the image. The first excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a first wavelength of a non-visible light band. The second excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a second wavelength of the non-visible light band being different from the first wavelength.

Abstract: The present invention includes an image information decoding method which comprises: a step of receiving a bitstream that includes a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit including information related to an encoded image; and a step of parsing an NAL unit header of the NAL unit. The NAL unit header includes layer information including reserved_one_5bits for identifying an extended layer in an extended bitstream and temporal_id for identifying a temporal layer of a bitstream. The reserved_one_5bits of the layer information is received prior to the temporal_id of the layer information. Thus, a method for describing scalability information in a hierarchical bitstream is provided.

Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments and correction of white balance and/or fixed pattern noise at startup or at any other time during a procedure.

Abstract: A display apparatus that comprises a display screen and a set of support portions, is provided. The display apparatus receives a user input that corresponds to a configuration of the display screen and controls motion of the set of support portions based on the received user input. A change in a surface curvature of the display screen is based on the motion of the set of support portions.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide a platform for autonomously rotating a computing device having display surfaces that may be disposed on multiple sides of the computing device. One example method includes monitoring information displayed on the display surfaces and determining there is relevant information from one of the display surfaces to be directed towards a user of the computing device. The method further includes detecting a location of the user with respect to the computing device and rotating the computing device so that the display surface with the relevant information is to be directed towards the detected location of the user.

Abstract: A scanning laser microscope includes: an objective lens; an XY scanner; a Z scanner; a detector that detects fluorescence from a sample and that outputs luminance information; an image processor that generates an image based on the luminance information and scanning-position information; and a controller that controls these components, wherein while the controller shifts the scanning line by the XY scanner each time the controller scans one line by the XY scanner, the controller changes the scanning position in forward and return paths of the direction along the optical axis of the objective lens by the Z scanner, reverses, between the forward and return path, an orientation in which the scanning line is shifted by the XY scanner, and reverses, about an axial line along the main scanning direction, either the image of the plane in the forward path or the image of the plane in the return path.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor which changes a frame rate in a period of moving picture data to a first set value of the frame rate, codes respective pictures in the period to obtain a code amount according to the first set value, calculates a cumulative value of a code amount of each kind of pictures different in applicable coding processing regarding the respective pictures included in the period, calculates a ratio of the cumulative value, estimates a change tendency of a difficulty level of coding of respective pictures in a next period after the period based on transition of the frame rate and transition of the ratio of the cumulative value, and obtains a second set value of the frame rate and a third set value of a bit rate applied to the next period according to the change tendency of the difficulty level.

Abstract: Systems and methods which detect in video and/or audio data a change in a physiological indicator of a person captured by the video and/or audio data, and which provide feedback indicating when the change in the physiological indicator occurs, are described. A method uses an analytics module operating on at least one processor. Data is received from a video camera worn on a first person. The data is indicative of an interaction between the first person and a second person. A physiological indicator of the second person is detected by analyzing the data. A change in the physiological indicator in the data is determined. An indication of the change in the physiological indicator in the data is transmitted to a sensory device on the first person.

Abstract: A camera assembly includes a base, and two cameras located on the base. When the base makes the two cameras in a tilted state, an angle between a first plane and a second plane is greater than 0 degree and less than 180 degrees, and back surfaces of the two cameras are opposing each other. The first plane is a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction of one of the two cameras, and the second plane is a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the other one of the two cameras.

Abstract: In a system for 360 degree video capture and playback, 360 degree video may be captured, stitched, encoded, decoded, rendered, and played-back. In one or more implementations, a decoding device receives a 360 degree video stream as input and decodes the 360 degree video stream, and a memory device stores the 360 degree video stream and viewing history data associated with the 360 degree video stream. A rendering device may render the decoded stream using view angles from the viewing history data. In one or more implementations, an object tracking device tracks one or more objects in the decoded 360 degree video stream and provides one or more tracking angles associated with the objects. The rendering device may render the decoded 360 degree video stream using the one or more tracking angles to keep at least one object in the 360 degree video stream for one or more rendered frames.

Abstract: Provided are an image stabilizing apparatus and method thereof. The image stabilizing apparatus performs image stabilization by using both an image sensor and a motion sensor. Image distortion and movement are stably corrected by using both the position of a feature point, which is extracted by the image sensor and image processing, and the movement position of the feature point, which is predicted by the motion sensor.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for performing adaptive color space conversion and adaptive entropy encoding of LUT parameters. A video bitstream may be received and a first flag may be determined based on the video bitstream. The residual may be converted from a first color space to a second color space in response to the first flag. The residual may be coded in two parts separated by the most significant bits and least significant bits of the residual. The residual may be further coded based on its absolute value.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method which are capable of suppressing a reduction in an increase in coding efficiency. A receiving unit that receives an encoded bitstream including a syntax element related to an inter-image process and an analyzing unit that analyzes the syntax element received by the receiving unit in a state in which a value of the syntax element is restricted when the bitstream is a bitstream encoded based on a profile for encoding a still image are provided. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an image processing device.