1. A method for displaying a panoramic view image, the method comprising: obtaining a panoramic image, wherein the panoramic image comprises a central portion and peripheral portions; applying a mapping function to the peripheral portions of the panoramic image to spatially compress each peripheral portion of the panoramic image based on a continuously increasing compression gradient that increases with distance from the central portion of the panoramic image to obtain, for each peripheral portion, a corresponding spatially compressed peripheral portion; and displaying, on a display device, the spatially compressed peripheral portions together with the central portion of the panoramic image, wherein, for each spatially compressed peripheral portion, one or more dimensions of the spatially compressed peripheral portion are smaller than a corresponding one or more dimensions of the corresponding peripheral portion to which the mapping function is applied.