The Green Network Panoramic Vision

SLAM with Panoramic Vision

This article presents an approach to SLAM that takes advantage of panoramic images. Landmarks are interest points detected and matched in the images and mapped according to a bearings-only SLAM approach. As they are acquired and processed, the panoramic images are also indexed and stored into a database. A database query procedure, independent of the robot and landmark position estimates, is ab...

Panomorph Based Panoramic Vision Sensors

Panoramic and 3D Computer Vision

Image sensor technology provides in recent years the tools for wideangle and high-resolution 3D recording, analysis and modeling of static or dynamic scenes, ranging from small objects such as artifacts in a museum to large-scale 3D models of a castle or 3D city maps, also allowing real time 3D data acquisition from a moving platform, such as in vision-based driver assistance. The paper documen...

Robot Homing based on Panoramic Vision

In robotics, homing can be defined as that behavior, which enables a robot to return to its initial (home) position, after traveling a certain distance along an arbitrary path. Odometry has traditionally been used for the implementation of such a behavior, but it has been shown to be an unreliable source of information. In this work, a novel method for visual homing is proposed, based on a pano...

Resolution Invariant Surfaces for Panoramic Vision Systems

A family of axially symmetric mirror shapes are proposed for panoramic imaging. These shapes keep the resolution in the image invariant to changes in elevation in the scene. In other words, this family of shapes achieves solid angle pixel density invariance. An analysis of range finding using two coaxial, axially symmetric resolution invariant mirrors in a coaxial pair is presented. The resolut...