PanoVIX-Mini: Tiny and compact, multi-sensor based 360Â° panoramic camera system for mobile robotic applications

Author

Jang, Jeong-Hun ; Ko, Suk-Pil

Author_Institution

Image Inf. Process. Lab., Seoul

fYear

2007

fDate

26-29 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

663

Lastpage

664

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415168

Filename

4415168