@inproceedings{8edacbb396f24e488b76b03ff8d877ff,
title = "360 degrees imaging systems design, implementation and evaluation",
abstract = "Existing 360 degrees imaging systems are efficient and have a good result. But some are expensive, others does not provide a full documentation about their design and implementation to customize it for some specific tasks. In this paper we built four different portable systems for outdoor 360° panoramic images capturing using open source software and off-the-shelf hardware, by minimizing the budget and maximizing the efficiency. Each one of these systems consists of a specific image capturing unit and a computing unit. The first system is a spherical mirror based system; the second and the third systems are multi-camera based systems and the last one is ball lens based system. We provide the design, the implementation and the test result for each system. We site some problems encountered and how we deal with them.",
keywords = "360 degrees view camera, Crystal ball lens, Multi-camera system, Spherical mirror",
author = "Hafed Abdelhamid and Weng, \{Dong Dong\} and Chen Can and Haddad Abdelkarim and Zitouni Mounir and Gasmi Raouf",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.; 2013 International Conference on Mechatronic Sciences, Electric Engineering and Computer, MEC 2013 ; Conference date: 20-12-2013 Through 22-12-2013",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/MEC.2013.6885385",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Mechatronic Sciences, Electric Engineering and Computer, MEC 2013",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2034--2038",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Mechatronic Sciences, Electric Engineering and Computer, MEC 2013",
address = "United States",
}