Scope:

Panoramic cameras have found growing interest in photogrammetry in the past few years. Originally primarily being used for web-based animation purposes, panoramic cameras have meanwhile reached a performance, which makes them an interesting data acquisition tool for a wide range of applications in photogrammetry. Especially for recording indoor scenes the use of panoramic cameras has proven to be rather economical. Integration of panoramic imaging and terrestrial laser scanning with an inertial measurement unit allows new application in high-resolution mobile mapping.

After the successful first workshop in Dresden February 2004 this workshop aimed at bringing together system manufacturers, algorithm and software developers, data providers and users of panoramic devices in photogrammetry to report on recent developments in sensor and system design, mathematical modelling as well as data acquisition, processing and visualization schemes.


Topics of the workshop included, but were not limited to:

• 360° panoramic camera design
• Panoramic route image acquisition systems
• Terrestrial laserscanning
• Sensor modeling and calibration
• Sensor integration and data fusion
• 3-D object reconstruction
• Automated data processing
• Visualization techniques