panorama shooting and hosting platform for nature monitoring

Copyright © 2012 Kadinche Corporation. All rights reserved.The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

Soko Aoki, Ph.D.CEO of Kadinche, Tokyo, Japan

Panorama Shooting and Hosting Platform for Nature Monitoring

© Kadinche Corporation

KadincheIT startup focusing on spatial expression technology

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Conventional Mountain Monitoring•  Using fixed web cam or DSLR

•  Low resolution to monitor plants, animals, & snow

•  Low zoom lenses to cover whole area

•  The system needs to be controlled automatically or remotely in the mountain lodge

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Image: Tateyama Murodou Mountain Lodge


Joint Project with National Institute for Environmental Studies Japan

•  Center for Global Environmental Research

•  Purpose–  Plants & Flowers Monitoring–  Snow Monitoring–  Animal Monitoring

•  First experiment in Tateyama, Toyama, Japan

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Approach: Giga-‐‑‒Pixel Panorama PhotoStitching multiple photos into a high resolution image

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1, Shooting

2, Stitching

3, Web Contents Robotic Head, Gigapan, USA


Tateyama Murodou Mountain LodgeDistance to Surface, Area, & Camera Lenses

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3,000m 600m

Lenses Focal Length Area per Shot Horizontal x Ver7cal = Number of Photos

Time of Shoo7ng (Approximate)

200mm 180m x 120m 16 x 5 = 80 Pics 80 Pics x 10 Seconds = 14 Min




System Architecture2 Cameras, 1 Robot Head, 1 PC with the Internet

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Camera 1 + Wide Lens

Camera 2 + Zoom Lens

Robot Head

Weather Decision

Periodic Shoo7ng

Panorama S7tching

USB USB

USB

Online Storage

Data Sending

PC


Demo Video

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Feature 1: Shooting Area Configuration•  Pointing left above and right bottomto configure the area of shooting

•  Number of shots is calculated with the relationship with camera lenses and area

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Feature 2: Weather Decision•  One time shot would be 1 Gigabyte

•  To reduce the size of data to be saved in the storage, we do not shoot when the mountain is not observable

•  Weather decision using the images pixel dispersion

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Feature 3: Periodic Shooting•  Periodic shooting is realized with Windowsʼ’ Task Scheduler

•  Periodic Schedule–  Camera: Shoot every 1 hour from 5 am to 5 pm–  Uploader: Upload data at 9 pm everyday

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PanoPlaza: Panorama Photo Hosting Platformhttp://cloud.panoplaza.com/

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Cloud BasedAll the tools are on the Internet

IntuitiveTagging by Drag & Drop

Do It YourselfYou can start using now!


Result: Mt. Tateyama & Mt. FujiStitched Giga-‐‑‒Pixel Panorama Photos

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Mt. Tateyama

Mt. Fuji


Result: Resolution & Zoom

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5616 x 3744 Pixel 24mm

26798 x 18658 Pixel 200mm

About 5 times in Horizontal & Vertical with Zoomed Image


Future Work•  System Improvement

–  Stability–  Automatic Stitching Feature–  Image Analysis Feature

•  Field Experiment–  1st Year (2014) : Installation to Tateyama Murodou Mountain Lodge

•  Mountain Lodge will be closed soon due to Winter season–  2nd Year (2015): Long-‐‑‒term monitoring

•  Expansion for other mountains & countries

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I am also doingPax Earth: Environmental NGO in Nepal (http://pax-‐‑‒earth.org/)

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Future Work: Monitoring Himalaya

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Image: NASA


Future: Panorama Video

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Using 6 cameras flying over the surface of a mountain


Summary•  Panorama Shooting and Hosting Platform for Nature Monitoring–  Robot-‐‑‒head Mounted Panorama Shooting Camera–  High Resolution Zoomed Image of Mountains for Scientific Research

–  Panorama Photo is Viewable (Zoomable) as Web Contents

–  Experiment in Tateyama, Toyama, Japan with National Institute of Environmental Studies

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Anyone need Remote Giga-‐‑‒Pixel Shooting?

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Thank you!

Soko Aoki, [email protected]

http://www.kadinche.com/en/

panorama shooting and hosting platform for nature monitoring

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