Spherical stereo vision is a kind of stereo vision system built by fish-eye lenses, which discussing the stereo algorithms
conform to the spherical model. Epipolar geometry is the theory which describes the relationship of the two imaging
plane in cameras for the stereo vision system based on perspective projection model. However, the epipolar in
uncorrected fish-eye image will not be a line but an arc which intersects at the poles. It is polar curve. In this paper, the
theory of nonlinear epipolar geometry will be explored and the method of nonlinear epipolar rectification will be
proposed to eliminate the vertical parallax between two fish-eye images. Maximally Stable Extremal Region (MSER)
utilizes grayscale as independent variables, and uses the local extremum of the area variation as the testing results. It is
demonstrated in literatures that MSER is only depending on the gray variations of images, and not relating with local
structural characteristics and resolution of image. Here, MSER will be combined with the nonlinear epipolar rectification
method proposed in this paper. The intersection of the rectified epipolar and the corresponding MSER region is
determined as the feature set of spherical stereo vision. Experiments show that this study achieved the expected results.
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