Foveated Vision System with Omnidirectional Camera

Abstract

We describe a foveated camera using two cameras, a perspective camera and an omnidirectional camera. The omnidirectional camera is used to build a peripheral view field, which has a wide view angle. The perspective camera is used to build a central view field (fovea), which has high resolution. This camera arrangement makes it easy to compute the direction to the target in the peripheral view field. We propose a method for compensating for the error of estimation of the target direction for this foveated camera.