Due to the panoramic capturing ability, there are many potential applications for omnidirectional cameras, including robotic systems, intelligent transport systems, surveillance systems, aerial photography and so on. However, omnidirectional camera images generally have lower resolution than typical cameras, leading to difficulty in identifying objects farther from the camera. On the other hand, omnidirectional cameras have a fisheye lens on either side, so when mounting them on robots, drones, or automobiles, they must be mounted so that the fields of view of the fisheye lenses will not be obstructed. This keynote discusses solutions to above mentioned demerits of omnidirectional cameras.

Prof. Chinthaka Premachandra (IEEE Senior member) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2011.
From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo. In 2018, he was promoted to an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Manager of the Image Processing and Robotic Laboratory. His research interests include AI, UAV, Image processing, Audio processing, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Mobile Robotics.  
Dr. Premachandra is a member of IEICE, Japan; SICE, Japan; and SOFT, Japan. He received the FIT Best Paper Award and the FIT Young Researchers Award from IEICE and IPSJ, Japan, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He has served many international conferences and journals as a Steering Committee Member and an Editor, respectively. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB) which is technically co-sponsored by IEEE.