Tomas Pajdla:

Panoramic Vision

(catadioptric cameras & mosaics)

Panoramic images see large view angle, and therefore provide stable motion estimation and complete
reconstruction of surrounding scene. 

See 

T.Pajdla, T.Svoboda, V.Hlavac. Epipolar Geometry of Central Panoramic Cameras. In Panoramic Vision: Sensors, Theory, 
and Applications, pp. 85-114. Springer Verlag, 2001.
(Overview of many central catadioptric cameras, definition of panoramic & omnidirectional image, epipolar geometry for hyperbolic and parabolic mirrors, point normalization for epipolar geometry estimation with omni-cameras)

for epipolar geometry central catadioptric panoramic cameras. 

Many catadioptric cameras are central omnidirectional cameras and many mosaics are non-central cameras.

References and links to papers can be found at T.Pajdla's homepage: http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pajdla.