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

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 356-361

  Hua, Hong ^a   Ahuja, Narendra ^b   Gao, Chunyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Catadioptric systems; Mirror pyramids; Omnidirectional imaging; Panoramic camera

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SENSORS; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION;

CATADIOPTRIC SYSTEMS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE ACQUISITION; MIRROR PYRAMIDS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGING; PANORAMIC CAMERA; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW (FOV);

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247232623     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.33     Document Type: Article

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