A practical way for obtaining depth in computer vision is the use of structured light systems. For panoramic depth reconstruction several images are needed which most likely implies the construction of a sensor with mobile elements. Moreover, misalignments can appear for non-static scenes. Omnidirectional cameras offer a much wider field of view than the perspective ones, capture a panoramic im...

In this paper, a novel algorithm for creating virtual indoor environments is described. First, a panoramic mosaic is generated from a series of photos taken with a camera rotates along a horizontal axis. Then, from the panoramic mosaic image, a non-fixed viewing point virtual walkthrough system can be created by defining manually the corners in the vertical panoramic mosaic. The side ratio of t...

A simple and fast method of determining the position of the optical center without any specialized equipment is presented. The position of the optical center is a depth determining parameter in a panoramic depth imaging system [Peer, P., Solina, F., 2002. Panoramic depth imaging: single standard camera approach. Internat. J. Comput. Vision 47 (1/2/3), 149–160; Peer, P., Solina, F., 2005. Multip...

Panoramic radiographs provide proper information for most oral surgery procedures panning, for the evaluation of orthodontic treatments progress, for growth and development of children follow up and for oral health surveys in specific populations. Furthermore, the panoramic imaging allows the complete visualization of dental and bone anatomic landmarks and structure in the maxilla and mandible ...

This paper describes computationally and materially inexpensive methods for panoramic video imaging. Digitally combining images from an array of inexpensive video cameras results in a wide-field panoramic camera, from inexpensive off-the-shelfhardware. We present methods that both correct lens distortion and seamlessly merge images into a panoramic video image. Electronically selecting a region...

In this paper a reactive and concurrent control framework for viewpoint control is developed. The viewpoint control task is decomposed into three control objectives namely; obstacle avoidance, visibility and precision. A moving object is tracked in two panoramic sensors using color, and a scalar uncertainty metric of the object position estimate is introduced. Individual control objectives are ...

Telepresence systems using an omnidirectional image sensor enable us to experience remote sites with rich sensation. An omnidirectional multi-camera system is more useful to acquire high-resolution omnidirectional images of outdoor scenes than a monocular camera system. However, exact calibration of the camera system is necessary to generate a panoramic movie. In this paper, we describe a panor...

Panoramic radiographs provide proper information for most oral surgery procedures panning, for the evaluation of orthodontic treatments progress, for growth and development of children follow up and for oral health surveys in specific populations. Furthermore, the panoramic imaging allows the complete visualization of dental and bone anatomic landmarks and structure in the maxilla and mandible ...

Telepresence systems using an omnidirectional image sensor enable us to experience remote sites with rich sensation. An omnidirec-tional multi-camera system is more useful to acquire high-resolution om-nidirectional images of outdoor scenes than a monocular camera system. However, exact calibration of the camera system is necessary to generate a panoramic movie. In this paper, we describe a pan...

Recent biological evidence suggests that position and orientation can be estimated from an adequately compressed set of environment snapshots and their relationships. In this paper we present a pure appearance-based localisation method using an eigenspace representation of panoramic images. We rst review several types of rotational invariant representation of panoramic images in terms of their ...