Camera Vibration / Stabilizer Solutions

By Brian Rhodes, Published Mar 13, 2013, 12:00am EDT (Info+)

Shaky images can severely undermine image quality, strain operator eyesight and make monitoring more difficult. What can be done about the problem? In this note, we explain the issues and examine what to do:

Background

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Comments (2)

Frank Yang

03/22/13 12:28am

Hi John,

NEXCOM new mobile ip camera built-in EIS, please see the testing video :

NCm-301 video stablization - YouTube

The left side image is with EIS, so the image is more stable.

Frank

Daniel Steiner

04/04/13 04:03pm

I think this link is a good example of what this article points out. The test platform is producing a fixed frequency vibration of constant amplitude. The best case senario. Would like to see a demo of the systems performance under dynamic conditions which you would have in the real world.

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