Design of Stereo Omni-directional Vision Sensors with Full Sphere View and without Dead Angle

As the sensor technology and image processing technology rapidly developped, more and more scholars have paid attention to the panoramic imaging technology. Panoramic imaging technology can be applied to military, medicine, security, etc. Panoramic imaging technology has became an important research topic in the field of computer vision. There are four current methods to obtain panoramic images which are rotation imaging, multicamera imaging, fish-eye lens imaging and catadioptric imaging. This chapter explores the existing panoramic imaging technology, proposes improved ideas and methods to the original ODVS, which are average angular resolution and second catadioptric imaging technology, and achieves 360°×360° full sphere panoramic image by integrating two images acquired by two symmetrical ODVSs. Experiments confirm that this method can obtain a sphere view field and has important application value in field of video surveillance.