Title
Local-Adaptive and Outlier-Tolerant Image Alignment Using RBF Approximation
Abstract
Image alignment is a crucial step to generate a high quality panorama. The state-of-the-art approaches use local-adaptive transformations to deal with multi-view parallax, but still suffer from unreliable feature correspondences and high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a local-adaptive and outlier-tolerant image alignment method using RBF (radial basis function) approximation. To eliminate the visible artifacts, the input images are warped according to a constructed projection error function, whose parameters are estimated by solving a linear system. The outliers are efficiently removed by screening out the abnormal weights of RBFs, such that better alignment quality can be achieved compared to the existing approaches. Moreover, a weight assignment strategy is introduced to further address the overfitting issues caused by extrapolation, and hence the global projectivity can be well preserved. The proposed method is computationally efficient, whose performance is verified by comparative experiments on several challenging cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.imavis.2020.103890
Image and Vision Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
image alignment,radial basis function,scattered data approximation,outlier removal,computer vision
Error function,Radial basis function,Parallax,Pattern recognition,Linear system,Panorama,Outlier,Extrapolation,Artificial intelligence,Overfitting,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
95
C
0262-8856
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Li1713.65
Baosong Deng200.34
Maojun Zhang331448.74
Ye Yan400.34
Zhengming Wang500.34