abstract:Route panorama is a continuous 2D image that includes all the scenes visible from a route, as it first appeared in Zheng and Tsuji′s work of panoramic views in 1990.Jiang Yu Zheng, Saburo Tsuji, Panoramic representation for route recognition by a mobile robot, International Journal of Computer Vision 9(1): 55-76 (1992) Different from a local panorama at a static viewpoint, a digital route panorama is constructed from partial views at consecutive viewpoints along a path.