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Camera matrix

The camera matrix, also called the projection matrix, is the 3 × 4 matrix that maps 3D world points to 2D image points under a pinhole camera model.

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Camera pose estimation

Camera pose estimation is the task of computing a camera's position and orientation, its six-degree-of-freedom pose, from image data, underpinning visual SLAM, visual odometry, and Structure from Motion.

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Camera resectioning

Camera resectioning, also known as geometric camera calibration, is the problem of finding a camera's position and orientation in space from known scene points and their corresponding image positions.

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Caml

Caml, an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language, is a general-purpose ML-family programming language developed at INRIA in France since 1984 and best known through its main implementation, OCaml.

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Campus network

A campus network, or campus area network, is the data network an organization owns and operates to connect its buildings, most often at a university or college.

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Camtasia

Camtasia, also known as Camtasia Studio, is screen recording and video editing software from TechSmith for Windows and macOS, used chiefly for tutorials, software demonstrations, and training content.

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CAN FD

CAN FD (CAN with Flexible Data-rate) is a Controller Area Network data link layer protocol introduced by Bosch in 2012, raising payload from 8 to 64 bytes.

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CAN protocol

Controller Area Network (CAN) is a message-based serial bus protocol, standardized in ISO 11898, that lets microcontrollers communicate over a shared pair of wires using priority-based identifiers.

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Canada permanent resident card

The Canada permanent resident card, also called the Maple Leaf Card, is a document issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada as official proof of permanent resident status.

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Canalys

Canalys was a global technology market analyst firm, established in 1998 and known for smartphone shipment tracking and channel research, acquired by Informa TechTarget in 2023 and absorbed into Omdia in 2025.

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Canary release

A canary release exposes a new software version to a small share of production traffic before a full rollout, named after canaries in coal mines.

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Canary trap

A canary trap, also known as a barium meal, is a counterintelligence technique for identifying leakers by giving each suspect a uniquely altered version of a document.

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Candice Gerstner

Candice Gerstner is an American applied research mathematician at the National Security Agency who works on deepfake detection and multimedia forensics and received a PECASE award.

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Cangjie (programming language)

Cangjie (仓颉) is a multi-paradigm, statically typed programming language developed by Huawei for building HarmonyOS Next mobile apps and cloud-side microservices, introduced publicly in June 2024.

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Canny edge detection

Canny edge detection is a multi-stage image processing algorithm that detects edges in digital images, introduced by John Canny in 1986 and still the classical baseline.

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Canny edge detector

The Canny edge detector, also called the Canny operator, is a multi-stage algorithm for finding edges in images, developed by John F. Canny at MIT in 1983.

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Canonical (company)

Canonical is a privately held software company founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2004 that publishes Ubuntu, a free Linux distribution, earning revenue from services and subscriptions.

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CANopen

CANopen is a higher-layer communication protocol and device-profile framework built on the CAN bus, standardized by the CAN in Automation group and internationally as EN 50325-4.

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Canton Network

Canton Network is a privacy-enabled blockchain network for institutional finance, announced in 2023 by Digital Asset and Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and BNP Paribas; its Global Synchronizer and Canton Coin token went live in 2024.

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Canva

Canva, also known as Canva.com, is an Australian web-based graphic design platform that reached $4 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2025.

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Canva Magic Studio

Canva Magic Studio is the umbrella name for Canva's bundled generative AI design features, launched October 4, 2023, and retired in 2026 in favor of Canva AI.

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Canvas API

The Canvas API is a web platform interface for drawing 2D graphics through JavaScript on the HTML canvas element, used for animation, game graphics, data visualization, and photo manipulation.

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Canvas LMS

Canvas LMS is a web-based learning management system developed by Instructure and launched in 2011, now the dominant LMS in US higher education with over 30 million users.

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CAP theorem

The CAP theorem, also called Brewer's theorem, states that a distributed system cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition tolerance simultaneously; it was proved by Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch in 2002.

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capa (software)

capa is a free, open-source tool from Mandiant's FLARE team, first released in 2020, that identifies malware capabilities such as HTTP communication or RC4 encryption.

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Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions

Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) is a processor architecture extension that replaces pointers with hardware capabilities carrying bounds and permissions, begun at the University of Cambridge in 2010.

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Capability Maturity Model

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a five-level framework for assessing and improving software development processes, developed at Carnegie Mellon University with US Department of Defense sponsorship.

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Capability Maturity Model Integration

Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, is a process and performance maturity framework for product, service, and supplier development, rated through a five-level maturity scale and formal appraisal.

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Capability-based security

Capability-based security is a model of access control in which authority is held as unforgeable references called capabilities, introduced by Jack Dennis and Earl Van Horn in 1966.

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Capcom Cup

Capcom Cup is Capcom's annual Street Fighter world championship, first held in 2013, where players qualify through the Capcom Pro Tour for a $1 million grand prize.