Design analysis of a high-resolution panoramic camera using conventional imagers and a mirror pyramid

Hong Hua; Narendra Ahuja; Chunyu Gao

doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2007.33

Design analysis of a high-resolution panoramic camera using conventional imagers and a mirror pyramid

Hong Hua, Narendra Ahuja, Chunyu Gao

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

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Abstract

Wide field of view (FOV) and high-resolution image acquisition is highly desirable in many vision-based applications. Several systems have reported the use of reflections off mirror pyramids to capture high-resolution, single-viewpoint, and wide-FOV images. Using a dual mirror pyramid (DMP) panoramic camera as an example, in this paper, we examine how the pyramid geometry, and the selection and placement of imager clusters can be optimized to maximize the overall panoramic FOV, sensor utilization efficiency, and image uniformity. The analysis can be generalized and applied to other pyramid-based designs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	356-361
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Volume	29
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2007.33
State	Published - Feb 2007

Keywords

Catadioptric systems
Mirror pyramids
Omnidirectional imaging
Panoramic camera

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Software
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Applied Mathematics

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