Recovering Range Using Virtual Multicamera Stereo

摘要

This paper describes and demonstrates a novel method for the passive recovery of depth from a rotating line-scan camera, giving information over a full 360° field of view. The recovery method can be regarded as either structure from known motion or as multicamera stereo. Also described are the principles of a device comprising of a static camera and rotating plane mirror that enables the same method of range recovery, but with significant benefits in terms of mechanical simplicity and compactness.