Hardware implementation of an omnidirectional camerawith real-time 3D imaging capability

Author

Afshari, Hossein ; Jacques, Laurent ; Bagnato, Luigi ; Schmid, Alexandre ; Vandergheynst, P. ; Leblebici, Y.

Author_Institution

Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel hardware implementation of an omnidirectional image sensor is presented which is capable of acquiring and processing 3D image sequences in real time. The system consists of a hemispherical arrangement of a large number of CMOS imagers, connecting to a layered arrangement of a high-end FPGA platform that is responsible data framing and image processing. The hardware platform in charge of real-time processing the 3.8 Gb/s data which is generated by the cameras is presented, and a first application of the system consisting of omnidirectional image acquisition is demonstrated.

Keywords

CMOS image sensors; cameras; field programmable gate arrays; image sensors; image sequences; 3D image sequences; CMOS imagers; FPGA platform; bit rate 3.8 Gbit/s; image processing; omnidirectional camera; omnidirectional image acquisition; real-time 3D imaging capability; Cameras; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Image reconstruction; Pixel; Three dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), 2011

Conference_Location

Antalya

ISSN

2161-2021

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-161-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3DTV.2011.5877192

Filename

5877192