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Zoom control has not received the attention one would expect in view of how it enriches the competences of a vision system. The possibility of changing the size of object projections not only permits analysing objects at a higher resolution, but it also may improve tracking and, therefore, subsequent 3D motion estimation and reconstruction results. Of further interest to us, zoom control enables much larger camera motions, while fixating on the same target, than it would be possible with fixed focal length cameras.
This work is partially funded by the EU PACO-PLUS project FP6-2004-IST- 4-27657. The authors thank Gabriel Pi for their contribution in preparing the experiments.
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Alenyà, G., Torras, C. (2007). Zoom Control to Compensate Camera Translation Within a Robot Egomotion Estimation Approach. In: Kozłowski, K. (eds) Robot Motion and Control 2007. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 360. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-974-3_7
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