Cylindrical Panoramic Cameras – From Basic Design to Applications

This paper reviews major steps in designing, producing and applying cylindrical panoramic cameras. Basically such a camera is characterized by rotating linear sensors capturing one image column at a time. Extremely high numbers of pixels per line allow capturing of super-high resolution panoramic images. These can be used for stereo visualisation and stereo reconstruction, as will be discussed in this paper. 1 Centre for Image Technology and Robotics, Tamaki Campus, Building 731, The University of Auckland, Morrin Road, Glen Innes, Auckland 1005, New Zealand. 2 German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany, Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, Rutherfordstrasse 2, D-12484 Berlin You are granted permission for the non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, BUT this permission is only for a period of 45 (forty-five) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the CITR Tamaki web site under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s). Cylindrical Panoramic Cameras From Basic Design to Applications Fay Huang, Shou Kang Wei, Reinhard Klette, Georgy Gimelfarb CITR, Computer Science Department The University of Auckland Tamaki Campus, Auckland, New Zealand Ralf Reulke, Martin Scheele, Karsten Scheibe German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, Rutherfordstrasse 2, D-12484 Berlin