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Catadioptric Sensors that Approximate Wide-Angle Perspective Projections
Hilton Head, South Carolina June 13-June 15
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R. Andrew Hicks, Drexel University
Ruzena Bajcsy, National Science Foundation
We present two families of reflective surfaces that are capable of providing a wide field of view, and yet still approximate a perspective projection to a high degree. These surfaces are derived by considering a plane perpendicular to the axis of a surface of revolution and finding the equations governing the distortion of the image of the plane in this surface. We then view this relation as a differential equation and prescribe the distortion term to be linear. By choosing appropriate initial conditions for the differential equation and solving it numerically, we derive the surface shape and obtain a precise estimate as to what degree the resulting sensor can approximate a perspective projection. Thus, these surfaces act as computational sensors, allowing for a wide-angle perspective view of a scene without processing the image in software. The applications of such a sensor should be numerous, including surveillance, robotics and traditional photography.
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R. Andrew Hicks, Ruzena Bajcsy, "Catadioptric Sensors that Approximate Wide-Angle Perspective Projections," cvpr, vol. 1, pp.1545, 2000 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'00) - Volume 1, 2000
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