Development of an Intelligent Omnivision

Abstract. This paper describes an innovative intelligent omnivision video system, that stitches the images of four cameras together, result-ing in one seamless image. This way the system generates a 360 degree view of the scene. An additional automatically controlled pan-tilt-zoom-camera provides a high resolution view of user defined regions of interest (ROI). In addition to the fusion of multiple camera images, the system has intelligent features like object detection and region-of-interest detec-tion. The software architecture features configurable pipelines of image processing functions. It is easily possible to rearrange the pipeline and add new functions to the overall system. The pan-tilt-zoom camera is controlled by an embedded system, that has been developed for this sys-tem. GPU-accelerated processing of elements allows real-time panorama stitching. We’re showing the application of our system in the field of surveillance, but the system can also be used for robots.