Imaging Beyond the Pinhole Camera

by Daniilidis, Kostas; Klette, Reinhard

• ISBN13: 9781402048937
• ISBN10: 1402048939
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-31
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

The world's first photograph was taken in 1826 using a pinhole camera, known as camera obscura. The camera obscura, the basic projection model of pinhole cameras, was already known in China more than 2500 years ago. Cameras used since this first photograph are basically following the pinhole camera principle. The quality of projected images improved due to progress in optical lenses and silver-based film, the latter one replaced today by digital technologies. Pinhole-type cameras are still the dominating brands and are also used in computer vision for understanding 3D scenes based on captured images or videos. However, different applications have pushed for designing alternative architectures of cameras. For example, in photogrammetry, cameras are installed in planes or satellites, and a continuing stream of image data can also be created by capturing images just line by line, one line at a time. As a second example, robots are required to understand scenery in full 360 degrees to be able to react to obstacles or events; a camera looking upward into a parabolic or hyperbolic mirror allows this type of omnidirectional viewing. The development of alternative camera architectures results in a need to understand related projective geometries for the purpose of camera calibration, binocular stereo, static or dynamic scene understanding. Written by leading researchers in the field, this book elucidates on these topics as well as some of the applications of alternative camera architectures.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Sensor Geometry	p. 1
Geometry of a Class of Catadiopric Systems	p. 3
Unifying Image Plane Liftings for Central Catadioptric and Dioptric Cameras	p. 21
Geometric Construction of the Caustic Surface of Catadioptric Non-Central Sensors	p. 39
Calibration of Line-based Panoramic Cameras	p. 55
Motion	p. 85
On Calibration, Structure from Motion and Multi-View Geometry for Generic Camera Models	p. 87
Motion Estimation with Essential and Generalized Essential Matrices	p. 107
Segmentation of Dynamic Scenes Taken by a Moving Central Panoramic Camera	p. 125
Optical Flow Computation of Omni-Directional Images	p. 143
Mapping	p. 163
Mobile Panoramic Mapping Using CCD-Line Camera and Laser Scanner with Integrated Position and Orientation System	p. 165
Multi-Sensor Panorama Fusion and Visualization	p. 185
Multi-Perspective Mosaics For Inspection and Visualization	p. 207
Navigation	p. 227
Exploiting Panoramic Vision for Bearing-Only Robot Homing	p. 229
Correspondenceless Visual Navigation Under Constrained Motion	p. 253
Navigation and Gravitation	p. 269
Sensors and Other Modalities	p. 283
Beyond Trichromatic Imaging	p. 285
Ubiquitous and Wearable Vision Systems	p. 307
3D Optical Flow in Gated MRI Cardiac Datasets	p. 331
Imaging Through Time: The advantages of sitting still	p. 345
Index	p. 365
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