TY - JOUR AU - Włodarczyk, Michał AU - Kacperski, Damian AU - Płuciennik, Tomasz AU - Grabowski, Kamil PY - 2017/06/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Image Acquisition System based on Synchronized High Resolution Gigabit Ethernet Cameras JF - Computer Science JA - csci VL - 18 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.7494/csci.2017.18.2.179 UR - https://journals.agh.edu.pl/csci/article/view/2029 SP - 179 AB - <p>Over the last few years, the huge rise in various computer vision applications can<br />be observed. They are widely used in such areas like video surveillance, medical<br />diagnostics, biometrics recognition, the automotive or military industries. Most<br />of these solutions take advantage of high-resolution cameras in order to obtain<br />high quality images. Surprisingly, little attention is paid in the literature to<br />the practical implementation of off-the-shelf image acquisition systems. Most<br />available solutions are composed of custom developed electronic devices which<br />use specialized multi-core DSPs and / or FPGA technology. Therefore, in this<br />paper the novel realization of the scalable and comprehensive image acquisition<br />system based on synchronized high resolution Gigabit Ethernet cameras<br />is presented. The proposed solution allows the connection of multiple cameras<br />together with any number of external illumination modules. Selected devices<br />can be synchronized with each other in user-defined configurations. Hence,<br />designed solution can be easily integrated in both simple and complex applications.<br />Authors describe in detail design and implementation processes of the<br />proposed platform. The performance issues that can occur in such systems are<br />presented and discussed. Obtained results are encouraging and useful for the<br />development of similar solutions.</p><pre><br /><!--EndFragment--></pre> ER -