Development of Low-Cost Compact Omnidirectional Vision Sensors and their applications

Omnidirectional vision sensors, which have been proposed in 1970, are recently studied in Computer Vision and Multimedia research. This paper discusses features of previously developed omnidirectional vision sensors and their problems in the design. Further, this paper proposes designs of low-cost and compact omnidirectional vision sensors and their new applications. The author considers utilization of omnidirectional vision sensor will be a key issue in Computer Vision and Multimedia applications.

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