I forward you this thesis proposal that can be done in collaboration with INAF (Osservatorio di Padova). If you are interested write to me and I'll forward to them. 

Pietro Zanuttigh

Thesis proposal

“Read-out and real-time anamorphic correction of a hyperhemispheric lens”

A hyperhemispheric lens is an objective able to record a field of view of 360° in azimuth (panoramic field) and 270° in elevation angles (hyperhemispheric vision). Due to the extremely large field of view, the final image presents necessarily a great distortion (anamorphism). The thesis work consist in the development of a C++ code able to read-out an image from an image sensor (cmos) and the contextual (real-time) anamorphic correction of the image.

A hyperhemispheric lens has several potential application both in terrestrial (video surveillance, autonomous driving system, etc..) and spatial (star tracker for mini satellites, planetary rover drive, etc…) frameworks.