Title
A new approach to real-time mosaicing of aerial images.
Abstract
We present a new image mosaicing technique that uses sequential aerial images captured from a camera and is capable of creating consistent large scale mosaics in real-time. To find the alignment of every new image, we use all the available images in the mosaic that have intersection with the new image instead of using only the previous one. To detect image intersections in an efficient manner, we utilize ‘Separating Axis Theorem’, a geometric tool from computer graphics which is used for collision detection. Moreover, after a certain number of images are added to the mosaic, a novel affine refinement procedure is carried out to increase global consistency. Finally, gain compensation and multi-band blending are optionally used as offline steps to compensate for photometric defects and seams caused by misregistrations. Proposed approach is tested on some public datasets and it is compared with two state-of-the-art algorithms. Results are promising and show the potential of our algorithm in various practical scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.robot.2014.07.010
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image mosaicing,Bundle adjustment,MLESAC,Separating axis theorem,Affine refinement,Multi-band blending,Gain compensation
Affine transformation,Computer vision,Collision detection,Computer science,Simulation,Bundle adjustment,Artificial intelligence,Global consistency,Computer graphics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
12
0921-8890
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.51
33
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taygun Kekec1110.85
Alper Yildirim2110.85
Mustafa Ünel315420.71