Virtual scenes retain full fisheye views and support simulated collisions

The authors reconstruct appearance and aligned surfaces directly from fisheye images, improving rendering quality while covering camera views wider than 180 degrees.

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Illustration: Virtual scenes retain full fisheye views and support simulated collisions

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GOFish turns full-view fisheye images into realistic renderings and aligned collision meshes, enabling real-time simulation without laser scans.

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A digital twin is a virtual copy of a place used to test robots. It needs realistic images and a surface model that tells simulated objects where they can bump into things. Ordinary reconstruction tools can lose the edges of fisheye images or fail to create that surface model.

GOFish uses fisheye photos and measurements of the camera lens to build a Gaussian-splat scene, rendered from many small, positioned translucent shapes. It also extracts an aligned mesh, a surface made of triangles, while accounting for lens shading and blur separately from the scene.

Across wide-angle tests, its peak signal-to-noise ratio, a measure of how closely rendered images match photos, beats the strongest prior method by 2.28 and 1.97 decibels. It also achieves top mesh-accuracy scores on reported tests, combining realistic views with collision geometry without Light Detection and Ranging scans.

How it works

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FROM FISHEYE PHOTOGRAPHS TO IMAGES ANDImages andcalibrationCalibratedviewing raysRender imagesExtract surfaceCalibrated fisheye photosCalibrated fisheyephotosRead camera calibration: Determine viewing raysRead cameracalibrationDetermine viewing raysGOFish scene: Train directly on fisheye viewsGOFish sceneTrain directly onfisheye viewsFull-view rendering: Retain peripheral viewsFull-view renderingRetain peripheral viewsAligned surface mesh: Geometry for collision simulationAligned surface meshGeometry for collisionsimulationGOFish separately models pixel blur and lens darkening to keep camera effects out of scene structure.
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