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Well, the stupid way to do this involves having a stand with many cameras mounted in a globe shape, such that the viewing angles of all the cameras overlap. Thi
by makmanalp 15y ago
Well, the stupid way to do this involves having a stand with many cameras mounted in a globe shape, such that the viewing angles of all the cameras overlap. This is expensive. The more elegant solution is to use half-globe mirror (or two) to get 360 vision with 1 camera:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidirectional_camera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidirectional_camera
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostas/omni.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostas/omni.html
This is getting very popular in robotics applications because it's cheap and a simple way to get 360 surroundings data. From this, you can localize and / or detect obstacles.
- bsimpson 15y agoHere's the mirror way of doing it: http://www.360video.com http://www.360video.com There's a link on the home page showing what the uncorrected video looks like (it's a giant video donut). You get better image quality (e.g. no stitching errors), but lower resolution, because the whole environment has to fit in the same 1080P frame.