Title :
Hardware implementation of an omnidirectional camerawith real-time 3D imaging capability
Author :
Afshari, Hossein ; Jacques, Laurent ; Bagnato, Luigi ; Schmid, Alexandre ; Vandergheynst, P. ; Leblebici, Y.
Author_Institution :
Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
A novel hardware implementation of an omnidirectional image sensor is presented which is capable of acquiring and processing 3D image sequences in real time. The system consists of a hemispherical arrangement of a large number of CMOS imagers, connecting to a layered arrangement of a high-end FPGA platform that is responsible data framing and image processing. The hardware platform in charge of real-time processing the 3.8 Gb/s data which is generated by the cameras is presented, and a first application of the system consisting of omnidirectional image acquisition is demonstrated.
Keywords :
CMOS image sensors; cameras; field programmable gate arrays; image sensors; image sequences; 3D image sequences; CMOS imagers; FPGA platform; bit rate 3.8 Gbit/s; image processing; omnidirectional camera; omnidirectional image acquisition; real-time 3D imaging capability; Cameras; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Image reconstruction; Pixel; Three dimensional displays;
Conference_Titel :
3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), 2011
Conference_Location :
Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-161-8
DOI :
10.1109/3DTV.2011.5877192
