Imaging Beyond the Pinhole Camera

Sensor Geometry.- Geometry of a Class of Catadiopric Systems.- Unifying Image Plane Liftings for Central Catadioptric and Dioptric Cameras.- Geometric Construction of the Caustic Surface of Catadioptric Non-Central Sensors.- Calibration of Line-based Panoramic Cameras.- Motion.- On Calibration, Structure from Motion and Multi-View Geometry for Generic Camera Models.- Motion Estimation with Essential and Generalized Essential Matrices.- Segmentation of Dynamic Scenes Taken by a Moving Central Panoramic Camera.- Optical Flow Computation of Omni-Directional Images.- Mapping.- Mobile Panoramic Mapping Using CCD-Line Camera and Laser Scanner with Integrated Position and Orientation System.- Multi-Sensor Panorama Fusion and Visualization.- Multi-Perspective Mosaics For Inspection and Visualization.- Navigation.- Exploiting Panoramic Vision for Bearing-Only Robot Homing.- Correspondenceless Visual Navigation Under Constrained Motion.- Navigation and Gravitation.- Sensors and Other Modalities.- Beyond Trichromatic Imaging.- Ubiquitous and Wearable Vision Systems.- 3D Optical Flow in Gated MRI Cardiac Datasets.- Imaging Through Time: The advantages of sitting still.

A variety of non-pinhole camera architectures, all discussed in one book at a level appropriate for students and specialists A representative collection of recent research activities, each chapter with a large number of references to related work Carefully written and edited to ensure a high standard of quality for representing this relatively new field in camera technology, computer vision, photogrammetry, and a wide range of applications for panoramic or omnidirectional cameras