Omnidirectional sensing for human interaction

Author

Yagi, Yasushi ; Yachida, Masahiko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Human Sci., Osaka Univ., Toyonaka, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

127

Abstract

Conventional TV cameras are limited in their field of view. A real-time omnidirectional camera which can acquire an omnidirectional (360 degrees) field of view at video rate could be applied in a variety of fields such as autonomous navigation, telepresence, virtual reality and remote monitoring. We have developed several different types of omnidirectional image sensors and multiple image sensing system which consists of an omnidirectional image sensor and binocular vision. In this paper, we introduce the outlines of our developed sensors and show examples of application to human-robot interaction.

Keywords

image sensors; robot vision; stereo image processing; television cameras; TV cameras; autonomous navigation; binocular vision; human interaction; human-robot interaction; multiple image sensing system; omnidirectional field of view; omnidirectional image sensors; omnidirectional sensing; real-time omnidirectional camera; remote monitoring; telepresence; video rate; virtual reality; Cameras; Face detection; Humans; Image resolution; Image sensors; Navigation; Remote monitoring; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Omnidirectional Vision, 2002. Proceedings. Third Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1629-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMNVIS.2002.1044505

Filename

1044505