Omnidirectional Vision Multiple images of a scene can be used to enhance the performance envelope of a scene captured by digital cameras. Increase image resolution and dynamic range are examples of such enhancements. Multi-camera systems are the foundation of emerging technologies such as free view point TV. The Panoptic system is a multi-focal omnidirectional camera which has all the attribute...

support for the camera interfaces. My colleagues Felix Woelk and Kevin Köser I would like to thank for many fruitful discussions. I thank our system administrator Torge Storm for always fixing my machine and providing enough data space for all my sequences which was really a hard job. Of course I also would like to thank the other members of the group Jan Woetzel, Daniel Grest, Birger Streckel ...