STEREO PANORAMAS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the use of panoramic models to document architectural and archeological sites. A stereo-panorama is a new extension to a panoramic model which improves the model by adding the depth dimension to the simple flat panoramic model. In addition to having an impressive view of reality, such a model could allow for three dimensional measurements on the objects. To develop such models a number of questions, however, need to be addressed. The numbers of cameras to use or the way occlusions are tackled are among such questions. In this paper, problems in producing stereo-panoramas and possible solutions to them are discussed. For this, various scenarios were tested. The results of this study showed that using stereo cameras having a very small distance from each other and taking photographs in appropriate lighting conditions can result in high quality stereo-panoramic models. 1