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This paper proposes a new and general model of panoramic images, namely polycentric panoramas, which formalizes the essential characteristics of panoramic image acquisition geometry. This new model is able to describe a wide range of panoramic images including those which have been previously introduced such as single-center, multi-perspective, or concentric panoramas [1], [5],[11],[14] and that are potentially of interest in further research. This paper presents a study of epipolar geometry for pairs of polycentric panoramas. The first and unique epipolar curve equation derived provides a unified approach for computing epipolar curves in more specific types of panoramic images. Examples of epipolar curves in different types of panoramic images are also discussed in the paper.
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Huang, F., Wei, S.K., Klette, R. (2001). Epipolar Geometry in Polycentric Panoramas. In: Klette, R., Gimel’farb, G., Huang, T. (eds) Multi-Image Analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45134-X_3
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