Virtual Camera System Using Panoramic Image

Abstract

We have been studying a virtual camera system that generates camera images electronically in real-time based on camera operations such as panning, tilting, zooming and so on. This system is used to realize an Electronic Set that makes any camera work possible while synthesizing pictures. This paper describes a system that generates camera images by cutting out from a wide panoramic image. The main research on this includes the following.
1) Method to generate the panoramic image.
2) Method to obtain a camera image from the panoramic image.
In the first method, we generated a wide panoramic image by connecting a number of static images filmed separately by panning and tilting the TV camera. In the second method, we studied a virtual camera system to convert the panoramic image obtained to a camera image depending on panning, tilting and zooming. We will introduce experimental results on the two subjects above.