An information processing apparatus configured to paste a full-spherical panoramic image along an inner wall of a virtual three-dimensional sphere; calculate an arrangement position for arranging a planar image closer to a center point of the virtual three-dimensional sphere than the inner wall, in such an orientation that a line-of-sight direction from the center point to the inner wall and a perpendicular line of the planar image are parallel to each other, the planar image being obtained by pasting an embedding image to be embedded in the full-spherical panoramic image, on a two-dimensional plane; and display a display image on a display unit. The display image is a two-dimensional image viewed from the center point in the line-of-sight direction in a state in which the full-spherical panoramic image is pasted along the inner wall of the virtual three-dimensional sphere and the planar image is arranged at an arrangement position.

Certain aspects of the technology disclosed herein involve combining images to generate a wide view image of a surrounding environment. Images can be recorded using an stand-alone imaging device having wide angle lenses and/or normal lenses. Images from the imaging device can be combined using methods described herein. In an embodiment, a pixel correspondence between a first image and a second image can be determined, based on a corresponding overlap area associated with the first image and the second image. Corresponding pixels in the corresponding overlap area associated with the first image and the second image can be merged based on a weight assigned to each of the corresponding pixels.

Disclosed is an image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. A method for decoding a 360-degree image comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format.

A video processing method for a circular panoramic video recording including an original field of view region at a first resolution and a further peripheral region outside the original field of view at a second, lower resolution, the method including the steps of performing spatial upscaling of the further peripheral region to a resolution higher than the second resolution.

An image capture device may capture two hemispherical views of a scene. The two hemispherical view of the scene may be stitched along a stitch line. The image capture device may be rotated to align the stitch line with a mid-line of a panoramic field of view of the scene. Separate exposure settings may be used to capture the two hemispherical views of the scene, with the exposure settings increasing the dynamic range of the scene depicted within the panoramic field of view of the scene. The panoramic field of view of the scene may be punched out as panoramic visual content.

Disclosed are an omnidirectional ghost imaging method and an omnidirectional ghost imaging system based on the mechanism of bio-inspired retina-like. According to the application, the logarithmic polar mapping characteristic of the bio-inspired retina-like structure is utilized to generate an annular pattern sequence of the bio-inspired retina-like, and the pattern sequence is utilized to modulate a light source. After being reflected by the target around the curved mirror, the light is projected onto the curved mirror and diffusely reflected. According to the reversible characteristics of the optical path, the light after diffuse reflection is reflected to the original light source by the half mirror and half lens, and the reflected light intensity with target information is received by the bucket detector. The reflected light intensity measurement value with target information is correlated with the annular pattern sequence of bio-inspired retina-like used for modulating the light source.

There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory storing a program. When the program is executed by the processor, the program causes the image processing apparatus to: obtain a first RAW image including a region of a first circular fisheye image; and develop the first RAW image. A pixel outside the region of the first circular fisheye image in the first RAW image is not developed.

An apparatus for stitching together multiple camera images to form a blended image having an output projection format. The apparatus is configured to convert each of the multiple camera images into the output projection format. It is configured to stitch together the converted images to form a single image. It is also configured to output the single image as the blended image having the output projection format.

A method for calibrating image distortion, apparatus, electronic device, and computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The method for calibrating image distortion includes: obtaining an original image captured by a camera; calculating a deformation degree of foreground objects when the original image includes the foreground objects; and performing a distortion calibration and a spherical projection on the original image to obtain a target image when the deformation degree of the foreground objects is greater than a predetermined threshold. The method for calibrating image distortion provided by the disclosure can realize fast distortion calibration of ultra-wide-angle image with low computational complexity and obtain better calibration effect.

An electronic apparatus according to the present invention, includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image; and a control unit configured to control so as to extract a partial range of an image acquired by the acquisition unit and record a moving image that is not a VR image in a storage, and control so as to record a still image that is a VR image in the storage based on the acquired image.