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Bird's eye view: Smartphone camera mounted on Eagle

Posted by Usman Qayyum on October 1, 2013 at 2:30am

Smartphones, it seems, can do anything. When researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits were asked to come up with a camera that could be mounted on an eagle to get a literal bird's-eye view of its life, they too turned to a cell phone.

 

 

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  • Usman Qayyum October 9, 2013 at 12:04am

    Thanks Helistorm about the link..... They are using WiiController but i can see they are surely going that way..... cellphone as a controller with camera as a optical flow/SLAM sensor.... GPS/A-GPS assistance and long trajectory FPV etc etc........ nice development :)

  • HeliStorm October 3, 2013 at 10:47pm
    Nix that. Search Flone instead.
  • HeliStorm October 3, 2013 at 10:44pm
    Usman...there are people working on that already. Search phlone.
  • Usman Qayyum October 3, 2013 at 12:33am

    @Helistorm..... Yep you are right about the revolution these small devices bring ....

    its not limited to communication but with HD camera, GPs, Assisted gps, high-level compression, GPRS, inertial sensors and on-top of that low cost + power intensive processors + run time for hours.......i wonder that sooner or later this smartphone revolution will not only take over the costly aerial payload but also the autopilot system :) 

  • HeliStorm October 2, 2013 at 8:28am
    And, when you consider that cellphone cameras are now coming with, among other things, 41 megapixel sensors, larger frame sensors, capabilities to record high speed footage, HDR video, 4k video, and soon light field technology, it is easier to use these existing systems than develop something new
  • HeliStorm October 2, 2013 at 8:23am
    I have said before the demand for more featured smartphones is driving a consumer level micro electronics revolution which is spreading to every aspect of our lives. Our hobby has been able to advance significantly in a short span of time thanks to this.
  • Rana October 1, 2013 at 7:56am

    Oh, that's really wonderful !

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