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- IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Vol. 7 No. 5, pp. 981-990
- Oct October 11, 2005
FlyCam
360-degree full-motion panoramic video
FlyCam provides real-time panoramic video by stitching together images from multiple video cameras pointed in different directions.
Video images are digitally corrected for distortion, aligned, and seamlessly blended into a 360-degree full-motion panoramic view. Selecting a region of the panorama gives a “virtual camera” that can be electronically panned, tilted, and zoomed. Multiple, independent virtual cameras can be created allowing different users simultaneous different views of the same scene.
FlyServer delivers motion panoramas to a web browser client via an http server. Virtual cameras can be automatically controlled using person tracking and image and sound analysis, enabling an “automatic cameraman” for unattended meeting and event capture. FountainCam is a FlyCam virtual window that provides outside views to a windowless conference room. The FlyAbout system provides photorealistic virtual reality from mobile FlyCam recordings.
FlyCam was productized in Japan by Fuji Xerox.
Here is a link to Kostas Danilidis’ page with information about many other omnidirectional camera systems.
How Does it Work?
Here’s a paper describing more details of the FlyCam system. FlyCam: Practical Panoramic Video. Jonathan Foote, and Don Kimber In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, vol. III, pp. 1419-1422, 2000., July 30, 2000 [PDF]
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