- 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 - http://www.kadinche.com/

1. Panorama Shooting and Hosting
Platform for Nature Monitoring
Soko Aoki, Ph.D.
CEO of Kadinche, Tokyo, Japan
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The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

2. Kadinche
IT startup focusing on spatial expression technology
Panorama Virtual Shops (Retail)
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3D Simulator (Display Manufacturer)
Air Dome Projection (University) RD ( Electronics Companies)

3. 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
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4. 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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5. Approach: Giga-‐‑‒Pixel Panorama Photo
Stitching multiple photos into a high resolution image
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1, Shooting
2, Stitching
3, Web Contents
Robotic Head, Gigapan, USA

6. Tateyama Murodou Mountain Lodge
Distance 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
100mm
360m
x
240m
9
x
3
=
27
Pics
27
Pics
x
10
Seconds
=
5
Min
50mm
720m
x
480m
5
x
2
=
10
Pics
10
Pics
x
10
Seconds
=
2
Min

7. System Architecture
2 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
Data
Sending
Online Storage
PC

8. Demo Video
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9. Feature 1: Shooting Area Configuration
• Pointing left above and right bottom
to configure the area of shooting
• Number of shots is calculated with the relationship
with camera lenses and area
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10. 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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11. 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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12. PanoPlaza: Panorama Photo Hosting Platform
http://cloud.panoplaza.com/
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Cloud Based
All the tools are on the Internet
Intuitive
Tagging by Drag Drop
Do It Yourself
You can start using now!

13. Result: Mt. Tateyama Mt. Fuji
Stitched Giga-‐‑‒Pixel Panorama Photos
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Mt. Tateyama
Mt. Fuji

14. Result: Resolution Zoom
About 5 times in Horizontal Vertical with Zoomed Image
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5616 x 3744 Pixel
24mm
26798 x 18658 Pixel
200mm

15. Future Work
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• 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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16. I am also doing
Pax Earth: Environmental NGO in Nepal (http://pax-‐‑‒earth.org/)
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17. Future Work: Monitoring Himalaya
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Image: NASA

18. Future: Panorama Video
Using 6 cameras flying over the surface of a mountain
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19. 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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20. Anyone need Remote Giga-‐‑‒Pixel Shooting?
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Thank you!
Soko Aoki, Kadinche
soko@kadinche.com
http://www.kadinche.com/en/