3D Modeling of Environment using Stereo Panorama-State of the Art

Today, a complete large scale city map which enables access to geometric as well as visual information is required by most organizations. There exist a number of problems such as moving objects and occlusions which affect the development of such maps. In this regard, the use of stereo panoramas is an image based solution which has attracted the developers and users of city maps. This is due to the fact that stereo panoramas besides offering a visual and complete view of surrounding static and moving are simple to create. There exist a number of techniques which are used to develop stereo panoramas. This paper, reviews these techniques from the projection as well as the geometrical stand points. The review includes systems offered for image acquisition, stereo panorama generation, geometric measurement and representation, and their related problems and offers some issues for future researches in this area.