Image Alignment and Stitching

MSR Richard Szeliski:
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/70092/tr-2004-92.pdf

Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher

Open Source:
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Single Camera Calibration and Stereo camera calibration

Parameters:

focal length, principal point, skew, distortion
rotation vector, translation vector

GML C++ Camera Calibration Toolbox

http://graphics.cs.msu.ru/en/science/research/calibration/cpp

MSR Zhang:
Zhang's camera calibration

Tsai Camera Calibration Software (fish eye distortion)

Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab
Microsoft Easy Camera Calibration Tool


Tina (calibration and computation)??
[1] N.A.Thacker and J.E.W.Mayhew. `Optimal Combination of Stereo
Camera Calibration from Arbitrary Stereo Images', Image and Vision
Computing. 9(1),27-32, 1990.

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Camera calibration:
http://babel.isa.uma.es/mrpt/index.php/Downloads

Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab (Jean-Yves Bouguet)
Tangential distortion

Microsoft Easy Camera Calibration Tool

Image Stitching (camera calibration and image stitching are heavily used in Google maps)


Epipolar rectification

Traffic Photo Enhancement

http://www.photocop.com/recognition.htm

plate recognition

plate recognition is mature and well developed technology.

If you search it, you will find a lot:
http://www.platerecognition.info/1104.htm

Free and open source number plate recognition software
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/JavaANPR.shtml

http://visl.technion.ac.il/projects/2003w24/

http://www.licenseplaterecognition.com/

A good introduction on the technology:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/452412.html

Real-Time Stereo Vision

Minoru 3D Webcam

http://nma.web.nitech.ac.jp/fukushima/minoru/minoru3D-e.html

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