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Omnidirectional vision deals with the processing and extraction of information from images with large fields of view. Usually by omnidirectional vision, it is meant images with (horizontal/vertical) fields of view of no less than 180∘ (continuous or not) and (vertical/horizontal) fields of view of no less than 40∘ (continuous or not).
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Omnidirectional vision is useful for many applications, namely, virtual and mixed reality, wide area surveillance, videoconferencing, and robotics (especially mobile robotics). A wide field of view is especially relevant for mobile robotics since it facilitates localization, navigation, mapping, and obstacle detection (Zheng and Tsuji, 1992; Yagi et al., 1994, 1995). Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM) can also benefit from omnidirectional images since most methods need features and textured images. In environments with low texture, sparse...
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Araujo, H. (2020). Omnidirectional Vision. In: Ang, M., Khatib, O., Siciliano, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41610-1_101-1
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