DENG Xiao-Ming Ph.D. candidate at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his bachelor and master degrees from Wuhan University in 2001 and 2004, respectively. His research interest covers omnidirectional camera cal- ibration and 3D reconstruction. Corre- sponding author of this paper. E-marl: xmdeng@nlpr.ia.ac.cn WU Fu-Chao Professor at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest covers computer vision, which include camera calibration, 3D reconstruction, active vision, and image- based modeling and rendering. E-mail: fcwu@nlpr.ia.ac.cn WU Yi-Hong Associate professor at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. degree from Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. Her research interest covers polynomial elimination and applications, geometric invariant and applications, 3D vision, and object recognition. E-maih yhwu@nlpr.ia.ac.cn