This book is intended to give students at the advanced undergraduate or introduc tory
graduate level, and researchers in computer vision, robotics and computer graphics, a self …

Geometry is a pervasive mathematical concept that appears in many places and in many
disguises. The representation of geometric entities, of their unions and intersections, and of …

This survey is mainly motivated by the increased availability and use of panoramic image
acquisition devices, in computer vision and various of its applications. Different technologies …

Background In the continuous world view, images are modeled as functions on a domain⊂
Rn. Geometric entities like curves and surfaces are manifolds, which can be described as …

A SIFT algorithm in spherical coordinates for omnidirectional images is proposed. This
algorithm can generate two types of local descriptors, Local Spherical Descriptors and Local …

Cameras and inertial sensors are each good candidates for autonomous vehicle navigation,
modeling from video, and other applications that require six-degrees-of-freedom motion …

Central catadioptric cameras are imaging devices that use mirrors to enhance the field of
view while preserving a single effective viewpoint. In this paper, we propose a novel method …

Omnidirectional cameras are widely used in such areas as robotics and virtual reality as
they provide a wide field of view. Their images are often processed with classical methods …

This is an introduction to multicast routing, which is the study of methods for routing from one
source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. Multicast is …

This paper addresses the problem of motion estimation and 3-D reconstruction through
visual tracking with a single-viewpoint sensor and, in particular, how to generalize tracking …