Title :
PanoVIX-Mini: Tiny and compact, multi-sensor based 360° panoramic camera system for mobile robotic applications
Author :
Jang, Jeong-Hun ; Ko, Suk-Pil
Author_Institution :
Image Inf. Process. Lab., Seoul
Abstract :
PanoVIX-Mini is a tiny and compact, multi-sensor based panoramic camera system that can create 360deg panoramic images from 4 individual CMOS camera images in real time. Conventional omni-directional cameras, typically composed of a bowl-shaped mirror and a single camera, are relatively expensive, not small and compact, and provide panoramic images of low resolution and poor quality. Also other multi-sensor based panoramic cameras are too expensive and relatively too big to be mounted on mobile robots, causing significant reduction of effectiveness. However, PanoVIX-Mini resolves these problems nicely.
Keywords :
cameras; image fusion; image resolution; mobile robots; bowl-shaped mirror; image resolution; mobile robot; multisensor based 360deg panoramic camera system; CMOS image sensors; CMOS process; Cameras; Digital signal processing; Human robot interaction; Information processing; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Real time systems; Robot vision systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human interactive Communication, 2007. RO-MAN 2007. The 16th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Jeju
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1634-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1635-6
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415168
