Apparen Family of Stereo Vision Cameras and Software

Seeing . Sensing . Adapting.

Guiding Robots
Tracking and Recognizing People or Objects
Steering Autonomous Vehicles

Videre Design offers an extensive line of stereo vision systems designed to meet the needs of researchers, educators and product developers.  Every stereo vision camera comes with SVS™ stereo analysis software at no extra cost, for a complete hardware and software solution.

Apparen Stereo Cameras

Our stereo vision systems offer you a choice of:

• Processor on-board or remotely located on your PC – You can choose to off-load the stereo computation from your computer to the camera, freeing up PC resources for your own application algorithms and processing
• Fixed or variable baselines – Our cameras come with fixed baselines or variable (VAR/VARX) baselines.  From 5 cm to 60 cm in length, there is a baseline for that meets your application needs

• Imagers – You may select rolling shutter or global shutter imagers depending on your application requirements
• Megapixel or VGA resolutions – Maximum resolution megapixel resolutions of 1280H x 960V pixels or VGA resolutions of 640H x 480V pixels allow for uncompressed video at 7.5 fps or 30 fps, respectively

All of our stereo vision systems come with:

• 1394a FireWire interface for power and data
• SRI’s SVS™ Small Vision System software for Linux or Windows platforms
• Lenses, cables and tripod

Apparen Stereo Processing Software

SRI International's Small Vision System is a Developer Kit for stereo applications.  SVS has support for the stereo heads provided by Videre Design. It can also work with images provided in memory. SVS is the most efficient, high-quality stereo range software available for standard or embedded PCs.The SVS™ libraries can:

• Calibrate a stereo head
• Rectify the images to account for distortion
• Perform stereo correlation to compute a range image
• Display the range image in OpenGL 3D form 

The Right Apparen Stereo System for Your Application

Summarized below is an overview of the available stereo vision cameras offered by Videre Design.

Fixed Baseline Cameras - Pre-calibrated at the factory

Variable Baseline Cameras - Field calibrated

Learn More: Our Stereo Selection Guide provides a more detailed analysis by features, by applications, and by baseline and optics.

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