Review on panoramic imaging and its applications in scene understanding

S Gao, K Yang, H Shi, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of high-speed communication and artificial intelligence
technologies, human perception of real-world scenes is no longer limited to the use of small …

General design algorithm for stray light suppression of a panoramic annular system

Y Liao, S Gao, J Bai, K Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work, a universal algorithm for designing a panoramic annular lens (PAL) system free
from stray light is proposed. The impact of a given stray light path to the optical system could …

Design and implementation of a high-performance panoramic annular lens

Q Zhou, Y Tian, J Wang, M Xu - Applied Optics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this work, a high-performance panoramic annular lens system designed with a point-by-
point method and variable parameter optimization strategies is proposed. Due to the …

High-performance panoramic annular lens design for real-time semantic segmentation on aerial imagery

J Wang, K Yang, S Gao, L Sun, C Zhu… - Optical …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
As the visual perception window of the drone system, the lens provides great help for
obtaining visual information, detection, and recognition. However, traditional lenses carried …

Panoramic annular localizer: Tackling the variation challenges of outdoor localization using panoramic annular images and active deep descriptors

R Cheng, K Wang, S Lin, W Hu, K Yang… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual localization is an attractive problem that estimates the camera localization from
database images based on the query image. It is a crucial task for various applications, such …

Design of a compact triple-channel panoramic stereo imaging system

N Pan, S Gao, J Bai, K Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose a compact form of the triple-channel panoramic annular lens (PAL) with a
stereo field and no central blind area based on polarization technology, which solves the …

Ultra-wide angle panoramic imaging system based on a multiplexed reflective surface

F Ke, S Gao, J Bai, K Wang - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose an ultra-wide angle panoramic imaging system based on a multiplexed
reflective surface, which consists of a panoramic head unit (PHU) and the relay lens group …

Design of a compact dual-channel panoramic annular lens with a large aperture and high resolution

S Gao, EA Tsyganok, X Xu - Applied Optics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose a compact dual-channel panoramic annular lens (PAL) with a large aperture
and high resolution to solve three major shortcomings of conventional PAL systems …

Dual-view catadioptric panoramic system based on even aspheric elements

A Amani, J Bai, X Huang - Applied Optics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose a compact catadioptric imaging system based on even aspheric elements to
solve some major limitations of conventional panoramic structure, such as field of view, blind …

Design of a compact two-channel panoramic optical system

Y Huang, Z Liu, Y Fu, H Zhang - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new panossramic optical system that provides an additional field of view
(FOV) channel without expanding the physical size of a conventional panoramic annular …