Title
Automatic Panoramic Image Stitching using Invariant Features
Abstract
This paper concerns the problem of fully automated panoramic image stitching. Though the 1D problem (single axis of rotation) is well studied, 2D or multi-row stitching is more difficult. Previous approaches have used human input or restrictions on the image sequence in order to establish matching images. In this work, we formulate stitching as a multi-image matching problem, and use invariant local features to find matches between all of the images. Because of this our method is insensitive to the ordering, orientation, scale and illumination of the input images. It is also insensitive to noise images that are not part of a panorama, and can recognise multiple panoramas in an unordered image dataset. In addition to providing more detail, this paper extends our previous work in the area (Brown and Lowe, 2003) by introducing gain compensation and automatic straightening steps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s11263-006-0002-3
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-image matching,stitching,recognition
Computer vision,Rotation,Image stitching,Computer science,Panorama,Image processing,Panoramic photography,Artificial intelligence,Invariant (mathematics),Luminance,Image sequence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
74
1
0920-5691
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
717
29.07
27
Authors
2
Search Limit
100717
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Brown12474175.45
D. G. Lowe2157181413.60