VIS-120 · Embedded Vision · Advanced
Multi-Camera Synchronisation — full syllabus
Keeping many cameras aligned in time, which is where multi-camera systems usually fail.
Duration3 full days in person · 6 half-days online
Cohortmax 14 in person · 20 online
Pricefrom SAR 9,000 in person · local pricing per city
Delivery35% principles · 20% guided investigation · 45% engineering studio
Who this course is for
System engineers building multi-camera rigs — surround view, stereo pairs, robotics arrays — whose cameras must agree on time tightly enough for fusion to work.
Prerequisites
- Camera pipeline basics (VIS-110 or equivalent capture experience)
- Basic timing electronics: oscillators, trigger signals, signal integrity awareness
- Python or equivalent for timestamp analysis and plotting
Course outline
Day 1 — Time, triggers and clocks
- Why multi-camera systems fail on time before they fail on anything else
- Hardware trigger distribution: fan-out, skew in the wiring itself and termination
- Sensor external-trigger and frame-sync modes; rolling vs global shutter exposure placement
- Clock domains: sensor oscillator, receiver clock, host clock and their drift
- Timestamping at source vs at reception and what each can and cannot prove; PTP context
Day 2 — Topology and bandwidth
- Aggregators and deserializers: channel mapping and virtual-channel assignment
- Bandwidth budgeting across a shared CSI receiver: per-camera modes vs aggregate rate
- Trigger topologies for 2, 4 and 8 cameras and their skew floors
- Exposure-time placement inside the frame period and motion-artifact implications
- Frame identity: index counters, timestamps and detecting a dropped or swapped frame
Day 3 — Measurement and validation
- Estimating inter-camera skew from captured timestamps and visual events
- Drift measurement over minutes and hours; fitting a rate and predicting bound crossings
- Validating camera-to-output mapping through the aggregator
- Injecting timestamp and index faults and measuring stereo/fusion degradation
- Operational checks: detecting sync loss in a fielded system
Hands-on labs
- Lab: Wire a hardware trigger to multiple sensors and verify frame-aligned capture with timestamps and a visual strobe
- Lab: Measure clock drift between free-running cameras over an extended run, fit the drift rate and state when sync bounds would be crossed
- Lab: Validate the full camera-to-output mapping through a deserializer/aggregator and produce the channel map as a document
- Lab: Inject a timestamp offset and a frame-index swap into recorded data; measure the resulting stereo depth error and downstream fusion degradation
Capstone project
Produce a synchronized multi-camera capture set with verified frame identity and a measured, bounded inter-camera skew distribution — delivered with the trigger topology map, the drift data behind the bound, and the operational checks that will detect sync loss after deployment.
What you leave with
- Trigger-distribution designs for 2–8 cameras with known skew floors
- A skew/drift measurement method you can run on your own rig
- Bandwidth budgeting across shared CSI receivers and aggregators
- Frame-identity validation tooling that catches drops and swaps
- Field checks that detect sync loss before the application silently degrades
Upcoming dates
| Dates | Where | Seats | Early bird | Regular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct – 20 Oct 20263 full days | RiyadhIn person · KAFD Conference Centre | 9 of 14 | — | SAR 9,000 | |
| 25 Oct – 27 Oct 20263 full days | Kuwait CityIn person · Al Hamra Tower | 4 of 14 | — | KWD 740 | |
| 1 Nov – 3 Nov 20263 full days | MuscatIn person · Knowledge Oasis Muscat | 9 of 14 | — | OMR 920 | |
| 1 Nov – 8 Nov 20266 half-days | Gulf bandLive online · 09:00–13:00 GMT+3 | 5 of 20 | — | US$1,750 | |
| 2 Nov – 4 Nov 20263 full days | OttawaIn person · Kanata North Tech Park | 4 of 14 | — | CAD 3,260 | |
| 9 Nov – 11 Nov 20263 full days | TorontoIn person · MaRS Discovery District | 9 of 14 | CAD 2,930until 10 Oct | ||
| 9 Nov – 16 Nov 20266 half-days | Europe bandLive online · 09:00–13:00 CET | 10 of 20 | US$1,580until 10 Oct | ||
| 9 Nov – 16 Nov 20266 half-days | Americas bandLive online · 13:00–17:00 ET | 15 of 20 | US$1,580until 10 Oct | ||
| 16 Nov – 18 Nov 20263 full days | LondonIn person · Shoreditch Works | 4 of 14 | GBP 1,680until 17 Oct | ||
| 16 Nov – 18 Nov 20263 full days | BerlinIn person · Factory Görlitzer Park | 9 of 14 | EUR 1,990until 17 Oct |
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