Real-Time Construction of Stereoscopic Video Frames using Three Omnidirectional Cameras

There are many studies about acquisition of monoscopic and stereoscopic panorama in the literature. Since obtaining motion parallax accurately without having distortions is a very challenging problem, especially 360-degree stereoscopic image and video capturing has become a prevalent research topic. However, studies in this topic have focused on costly systems with many cameras and high processing power demand. In this study, which presents an efficient solution in terms of processing power and cost, stereoscopic frames are processed in real time using three consumer grade 360-degree cameras whose outputs are sampled according to view orientation. Besides, a method is developed to eliminate the distortions around the borders of the field of view with the help of blending with selected auxiliary camera frames.