Omni-directional 3D measurement using double fish-eye stereo vision

In this paper, the authors describe on an omnidirectional 3D measurement using double fish-eye stereo vision. This vision system consists of two stereo visions which are back to back each other. In the method, the image from the fish-eye vision is transformed into panoramic image and a parallax is detected by simple template matching to the transformed image. Using the method, three dimensional measurement of the all-directional space is possible, though the system composition is simple. In the paper, the method is explained and an example of experiment is shown.