Pseudo-omnidirectional and distributed multi-scale vision system

A pseudo-omnidirectional and distributed multi-scale vision system is designed in view of the difficulty in meeting the demands of the real time and high complexity of the algorithms simultaneously. In this system, in order to get omnidirectional view of surroundings and achieve high real-time property, multiple cameras are equipped and the images sampled from these cameras can be parallelly processed by DSP. At the same time, software and hardware in the grabber can be customized at any moment so that multi-scale algorithms can be implemented in the system. The vision system can be used as a general platform for autonomous mobile robot.