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Folded Catadioptric Cameras

Shree K. Nayar, Venkata Peri
CVPR 1999 pp. 2217-
doi:10.1109/CVPR.1999.784632 /cvpr/1999/nayar1999cvpr-folded/

Abstract

A framework is developed for the design and analysis of single-viewpoint catadioptric cameras that use two or more mirrors. The use of multiple mirrors permits folding of the optics which leads to more compact camera designs than ones that use a single mirror. A dictionary of camera designs that use two conic mirrors is presented. We show that any folded system that uses conic mirrors has a geometrically equivalent system that uses a single conic mirror. This result makes it easy to determine the scene-to-image mapping of a conic folded system. In addition, we discuss the optical benefits of using folded systems. As an example, we choose a camera design from our dictionary and optimize its parameters via optical simulations. This design is used to construct a compact video camera that provides a hemispherical field of view.

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Nayar and Peri. "Folded Catadioptric Cameras." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1999. doi:10.1109/CVPR.1999.784632

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[Nayar and Peri. "Folded Catadioptric Cameras." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1999.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1999/nayar1999cvpr-folded/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.1999.784632

BibTeX

@inproceedings{nayar1999cvpr-folded,
  title     = {{Folded Catadioptric Cameras}},
  author    = {Nayar, Shree K. and Peri, Venkata},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {1999},
  pages     = {2217-},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.1999.784632},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1999/nayar1999cvpr-folded/}
}