Gradient-based approach for fine registration of panorama images

  • Authors:
  • Hui Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Special issue on computer graphics and computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper studies the application of gradient-based motion detection techniques (i.e., optical flow methods) for registration of adjacent images taken using a hand-held camera for the purposes of building a panorama. A general 8-parameter model or a more compact 3-parameter model is commonly used for transformation estimation. However, both models are approximations to the real situation when viewpoint position is not absolutely fixed but includes a small translation, and thus distortion and blurring are sometimes present in the final registration results. This paper proposes a new 5-parameter model that shows better result and has less strict requirement on good choice of unknown initial parameters. An analysis of disparity recovery range and its enlargement using Gaussian filter is also given.