Optical system design of artificial compound eye based on field stitching. Issue 6 (30th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Yuwei; Cai, Bolin; Lu, Yu; Chen, Xiangcheng; Wang, Keyi
• Is Part Of: Microwave and optical technology letters. Volume 59:Issue 6(2017:Jun.)
• Page Start: 1277
• Page End: 1279
• Publication Date: 2017-03-30
• Subjects: compound eye -- large FOV -- high resolution -- panoramic image; Microwaves -- Periodicals; Optics -- Periodicals; 621
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.30525
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0895-2477

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an optical system design method for artificial compound eye (ACE) to realize large field‐of‐view (FOV) and high‐resolution imaging. The designed ACE is actually a multi‐aperture optical system which comprises layering cameras mounted over a hemisphere. Cameras are layered based on the field stitching principle, such that images captured by them can combine with each other to form a panoramic image. The design guidelines enable the construction of ACEs with arbitrary FOVs. In the experiment, an ACE consisting of seven cameras was fabricated with a spherical shell of radius 4 cm. Then a panoramic image with 75° FOV and 18 million pixels was obtained that demonstrated the validity of the proposed method. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 59:1277–1279, 2017