A Monitoring Scope Panorama Stitching and Fast Automatic Positioning System Based on Spherical Cameras

A monitoring scope panorama stitching and fast automatic positioning system based on spherical cameras is presented in this paper. Compared to the traditional manual camera control for specified scene monitoring in large surveillance range, the developed system provides a fast and efficient way of automatic adjusting the cameras. A fast stitching approach is deployed to combine the image set from the camera into a panorama image. When an expected monitoring site is designated in the panorama, the system estimates current location of the camera, plan the path and move to the expected scene automatically. This system is fast, simple to use and achieves multi-camera simultaneous positioning.