Title
Stereoscopic Image Stitching via Disparity-Constrained Warping and Blending
Abstract
As a significant branch of virtual reality, stereoscopic image stitching aims to generating wide perspectives and natural-looking scenes. Existing 2D image stitching methods cannot be successfully applied to the stereoscopic images without considering the disparity consistency of stereoscopic images. To address this issue, this paper presents a stereoscopic image stitching method based on disparity-constrained warping and blending, which could avoid visual distortion and preserve disparity consistency. First, a point-line-driven homography based disparity minimization method is designed to pre-align the left and right images and reduce vertical disparity. Afterwards, a multi-constraint warping is proposed to further align the left and right images, where the initial disparity map is introduced to control the consistency of disparities. Finally, a disparity consistency seam-cutting and blending method is presented to determine the optimal seam and conduct stereoscopic image stitching. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive performance compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TMM.2019.2932573
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stereo image processing,Distortion,Two dimensional displays,Visualization,Minimization methods,Shape,Feature extraction
Computer vision,Image stitching,Image warping,Virtual reality,Stereoscopy,Computer science,Minification,Homography,Artificial intelligence,Visual distortion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
3
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoting Fan1123.24
Jianjun Lei271352.69
Yuming Fang3124775.50
Qingming Huang43919267.71
Nam Ling561275.02
Chunping Hou68514.69