Locally adapted projections to reduce panorama distortions

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Kopf;Dani Lischinski;Oliver Deussen;Daniel Cohen-Or;Michael Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research;The Hebrew University;University of Konstanz;Tel Aviv University;Microsoft Research

  • Venue:
  • EGSR'09 Proceedings of the Twentieth Eurographics conference on Rendering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Displaying panoramic and wide angle views on a flat 2D display surface is necessarily prone to distortions. Perspective projections are limited to fairly narrow view angles. Cylindrical and spherical projections can show full 360° panoramas, but at the cost of curving straight lines, interfering with the perception of salient shapes in the scene. In this paper, we introduce locally-adapted projections. Such projections are defined by a continuous projection surface consisting of both near-planar and curved parts. A simple and intuitive user interface allows the specification of regions of interest to be mapped to the near-planar parts, thereby reducing bending artifacts. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a variety of panoramic and wide angle images, including both indoor and outdoor scenes.