Details (by Institution)

• Aalborg University [Denmark]
  • Lenses: Ernitec
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  • Software: OS/9
  • Vision Hardware:
  • Position Controllers: Philips PG3637 stepper controller board (cameras, neck); PEP Intelligent I/O Channel (lenses); Motorola MVME 147 central processor
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized focus, aperture, and zoom

• Academia Sinica [Taiwan]
  • Lenses: Fujinon-TV 1:1.4/25
  • Cameras: Panasonic GP-MF502
  • Calibration: Shih et al. (1995)
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized focus; equipped with a rotatable laser line projector for surface reconstruction; calibrated with high accuracy for camera and kinematic parameters

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) [Switzerland]
  • Lenses: Marshall V-4301, 2.1mm, f2.0
  • Cameras: Marshall V-1210, B&W 1/3" board-mounted CCD
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  • Vision Hardware: Motorola PowerPC 403 GCX board
  • Position Controllers: Motorola M68336 microcontroller
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; camera pan, tilt, and cyclotorsion

• Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI [Japan]
  • Lenses: ETL/RWC foveated wide angle lens (custom designed)
  • Cameras: Toshiba IK-UM40
  • Calibration: Berthouze et al. (1996)
  • Software: DataCube ImageFlow and C/C++
  • Vision Hardware: DataCube MaxVideo250, DigiColor, Max860, mmNMAC3, MaxBolt/SkyBolt, DSIR KIWIVision
  • Position Controllers: INMOS T805 (dual) based PWM DC-Servo controller (custom designed)
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized focus; foveated wide angle lenses

• Harvard University [USA]
  • Lenses: Canon
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube
  • Position Controllers: Dynamation
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  • Special Features: custom 3 dof control of position - head pan and tilt with symmetric vergence; motorized control of focus and aperture through reverse engineering of the lens assembly

• Institute of Computer Science - FORTH [Greece]
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  • Commercial System: TRC BiSight
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• INRIA Sophia Antipolis [France]
  • Lenses: 45 degree f.o.v. fixed lens; 45-3 degree f.o.v. zoom lens
  • Cameras: CCD (449x579)
  • Calibration: Viéville (1994), Zhang et al. (1993), Zhang et al. (1995)
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  • Special Features: pan of one camera (with fixed lens); head pan and tilt; the other (stationary) camera has lens with controlable zoom and focus; inertial sensors

• Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon [Portugal]
  • Lenses: 8mm fixed
  • Cameras: monochrome
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  • Vision Hardware: Pentium PC
  • Position Controllers: PC-based
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; manually adjustable baseline and nodal point position

• Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica / Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais [Brazil]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E
  • Cameras: Hitachi KP-M1 CCD cameras
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  • Vision Hardware: Pentium 166
  • Position Controllers: Zebra HiPower
  • Commercial System: HelpMate Robotics
  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized aperture, focus, and zoom

• Japan Science and Technology Corporation [Japan]
  • Lenses: ELMO TT2011, Panasonic GP-LM7TAP
  • Cameras: Sony DXC-LS1, Panasonic GP-KS1000
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  • Vision Hardware: Fujitsu TRV-CU, Hitachi IP5005
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  • Special Features: camera tilt, head pan and tilt; motorized focus and aperture; each DOF of the eye is actuated hydraulically in torque control mode; each eye consists of two cameras, a wide-angle camera for peripheral vision and a narrow-field-of-view camera for foveal vision

• LIFIA-IMAG [France]
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  • Special Features: head mounted on a 6 dof robot arm on a mobile platform; motorized focus and aperture

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology [USA]
  • Lenses: Sanyo LC9943-LE08
  • Cameras: Texas Instruments TC211 (192x165)
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt

• Nanyang Technological University [Singapore]
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• NASA [USA]
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  • Commercial System: Teleos Research PRISM-3
  • Special Features: symmetric vergence; head pan and tilt

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [USA]
  Triclops
  • Lenses: (15-24mm)
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  • Calibration: Tsai
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  • Vision Hardware: Aspex, Inc. (PIPE)
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  • Special Features: trinocular (centered wide-fov (4mm) third camera); head pan and tilt
  TRC
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  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC
  • Commercial System: TRC BiSight
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• Osaka University [Japan]
  • Lenses: Canon J10X10R-II
  • Cameras: Elmo EC-202II
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  • Vision Hardware: Fujitsu FIVIS/VIP
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  • Commercial System: head pan and tilt unit (Mikami Co.)
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture

• Osaka University [Japan]
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• Royal Institute of Technology [Sweden]
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  • Vision Hardware: transputer network
  • Position Controllers: transputer
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  • Special Features: independent camera tilt; motorized compensation for shift of lens center yoked to focus and zoom of lens; motorized baseline adjustment; head pan and tilt; motorized zoom and focus

• Ruhr University Bochum [Germany]
  • Lenses: zoom 12.5-75mm
  • Cameras: CCD (800x600)
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  • Software: OS9
  • Vision Hardware: Sun network
  • Position Controllers: M68010
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  • Special Features: independent camera tilt; cameras with auto iris and electronic high-speed shutter; manually adjustable baseline; mounted on mobile platform

• Technion [Israel]
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• Technical University Munich [Germany]
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  • Cameras: Sony XC-77E
  • Calibration: Tsai
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  • Position Controllers: SMC-629 Motor Controller
  • Commercial System: 3-axis TRC Zebra Vergence/Pan/Tilt
  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; controlled by an RPC (remote procedure call) server under Linux OS

• University of Barcelona [Spain]
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• University of Bielefeld [Germany]
  • Lenses: Ernitec M8 Z10 Mk2 AP
  • Cameras: JVC KY-F55 3-chip color CCD
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  • Software: Imageflow, Sill
  • Vision Hardware: Datacube MaxVideo 200 with DigiColor
  • Position Controllers: Philips PG3637 stepper controller board (cameras, neck); PEP Intelligent I/O Channel (lenses)
  • Commercial System: copy of the AUC camera head
  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized focus, zoom, and aperture; all parameters controlled by a Sun workstation via the VMEbus

• University of British Columbia [Canada]
  • Lenses: Cosimicar (8.5mm)
  • Cameras: SONY (XC-77RR)
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube MaxVideo-200; transputer (T-800) network
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  • Commercial System: Zebra Robotics
  • Special Features: head pan and tilt

• University of Coimbra [Portugal]
  • Lenses: custom-made motorized zoom lenses (ISR)
  • Cameras: Cohu 4990
  • Calibration: Batista et al.
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  • Vision Hardware: Transtech C40 and Pentium/PCI matrox RGB framegrabber
  • Position Controllers: Precision Microcontrol DCXAt100 and DCXAt200 DC controllers
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  • Special Features: camera tilt; head pan, tilt, and roll; cyclotorsion; motorized aperture and focus; very fast and accurate motorized zoom lenses, custom-built in-house; motorized variable baseline; motorized optical center adjustment

• University of Erlangen-Nürnberg [Germany]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-MPX31
  • Cameras: Teli CS 5850-01P
  • Calibration: Tsai
  • Software: HIPPOS/PUMA (C++ Image Processing System)
  • Vision Hardware: HP 735, SGI Onyx Unix workstations
  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC
  • Commercial System: 4-axis TRC BiSight
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture, head pan and tilt

• University of Genova [Italy]
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• University of Genova [Italy]
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• University of Illinois [USA]
  • Lenses: Vicon (head 1:10-100; head 2: 17.5-105 mm)
  • Cameras: Cohu 4810
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube
  • Position Controllers: Ealing Electro-optics
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  • Special Features: head mounted on mobile platform

• University of Karlsruhe [Germany]
  • Lenses: Zoom 12.5-75mm (will be changed to 6-16mm)
  • Cameras: Pulnix TM 9700 Digital Output
  • Calibration: Direct Linear Transformation (DLT), Tsai's calibration
  • Software: OS9
  • Vision Hardware: EUROCOM E7 (VME), Thin-edge and Vectex for real-time edge extraction (ELTEC, Germany)
  • Position Controllers: MC68040
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized zoom and focus

• University of Kiel [Germany]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-MPX31
  • Cameras: Sony XC77-RR
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube MaxVideo 200
  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC
  • Commercial System: 4-axis TRC BiSight
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture, head pan and tilt

• University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [Spain]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-MPX31
  • Cameras: Sony CV-M1250
  • Calibration: Tsai
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  • Vision Hardware: TI TMS320C80
  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC-PC
  • Commercial System: 4-axis TRC BiSight
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture, head pan and tilt

• University of Louisville [USA]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-X41
  • Cameras: Hitachi KP-M1
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  • Vision Hardware: SGI Onyx
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  • Special Features: trinocular head, motorized focus, zoom, and aperture, head pan and tilt, variable baseline

• University of Maryland [USA]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-MPX31
  • Cameras: SONY XC77-RR
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  • Software: Imageflow/VEIL
  • Vision Hardware: DataCube MaxVideo 200
  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC
  • Commercial System: 4-axis TRC BiSight
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture, head pan and tilt

• University of Massachussets [USA]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-MPX31
  • Cameras: SONY XC77-RR
  • Calibration: Hollinghurst and Cipolla
  • Software: ImageFlow
  • Vision Hardware: DataCube MV200
  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC
  • Commercial System: 4-axis TRC BiSight
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture, head pan and tilt

• University of Oxford [UK]
  Yorick 11-14
  • Lenses: zoom lens f1.6, 5-75 degree f.o.v.
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  • Calibration: McLauchlan and Murray
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube; GEC TMAX transputer boards
  • Position Controllers: 2 T805 transputers
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; lenses with auto iris, motorized zoom and focus; cameras with electronic shutter
  Yorick 5-5C
  • Lenses: Cohu
  • Special Features: miniature version of Yorick 11-14; can be mounted on a robot arm

• University of Paderborn [Germany]
  • Lenses: Sony LSV-100A
  • Cameras: Sony EVI-311 PAL
  • Calibration: Tsai; Trapp and Drüe
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  • Position Controllers: Compumotor SX57-51, microstepping drive
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt; motorized aperture, focus, and zoom; 6 manual DOFs on each camera for adjustment of optical axis and nodal point position

• University of Pennsylvania [USA]
  • Lenses: Fujinon H10x11E-MPX31
  • Cameras: SONY XC77-RR
  • Calibration: Tsai, Willson
  • Software: 3L Parallel C; Sinectoanalysis Eyelib library
  • Vision Hardware: DSP-based (TMS320C40) framegrabber and convolver boards
  • Position Controllers: Delta Tau PMAC
  • Commercial System: 2-axis TRC BiSight
  • Special Features: motorized zoom, focus, and aperture; mounted on a PUMA 560 robot arm

• University of Rochester [USA]
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube MaxVideo
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  • Commercial System: 2-axis TRC
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• University of Sheffield [UK]
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• University of Strathclyde [UK]
  • Lenses: Panasonic
  • Cameras: Panasonic KS202
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  • Vision Hardware: VideoBlaster
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  • Special Features: camera tilt, head pan and tilt

• University of Surrey [UK]
  • Lenses: motorized (zoom, focus and aperture)
  • Cameras: color
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube MaxVideo 200
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  • Special Features: head pan and tilt

• University of Surrey [UK]
  • Lenses: Panasonic
  • Cameras: Panasonic microcameras
  • Calibration: Tsai
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  • Vision Hardware: Datacube
  • Position Controllers: PC-based
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  • Special Features: camera tilt, head pan and tilt; motorized zoom, focus, and aperture; light-weight, low-lag; open controller architecture; can be mounted on a robot arm; three different systems available

• University of Tennessee [USA]
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  • Software: VxWorks (running on Motorola 68030/40)
  • Vision Hardware: Datacube MaxVideo 20(200)
  • Position Controllers: stepper motors (position); DC motors (optical)
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• University of Toronto [Canada]
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  • Special Features: color cameras; head pan and tilt; camera torsion; mounted on a mobile platform with a robot arm

• University of Utah [USA]
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• University of Western Australia [Australia]
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• Vanderbilt University [USA]
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  • Vision Hardware: Androx imaging board
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  • Special Features: trinocular system - independent vergence of b/w cameras with a central color camera; head pan and tilt; mounted on a HERO 2000 platform

• York University [Canada]
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