Combined regional homography-affine warp for image stitching

Xinyi Li; Lin He; Xinguo He

doi:10.1117/12.2680008

27 June 2023 Combined regional homography-affine warp for image stitching

Xinyi Li, Lin He, Xinguo He

Proceedings Volume 12705, Fourteenth International Conference on Graphics and Image Processing (ICGIP 2022); 127050U (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2680008
Event: Fourteenth International Conference on Graphics and Image Processing (ICGIP 2022), 2022, Nanjing, China

Abstract

Image stitching is the process of combining multiple images with narrow fields of view into a panoramic image with high resolution. Conventional global warp-based image stitching algorithm has limited alignment accuracy and causes shape distortion while spatially-varying warp-based ones have high computational complexity. To address these problems, we proposed a novel regional warp which adopts various transformation models to handle different areas of the image. Images can be divided into overlapping and non-overlapping regions based on the distribution of matched features. For the overlapping area, two kinds of projective transformation are adopted in combination to warp each pixel in this region. For the non-overlapping area, it is further partitioned into two regions where a projective transformation and an affine transformation are utilized separately. Experimental results show that the proposed warp not only provides good alignment accuracy but also avoids severe shape distortion.

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Xinyi Li, Lin He, and Xinguo He "Combined regional homography-affine warp for image stitching", Proc. SPIE 12705, Fourteenth International Conference on Graphics and Image Processing (ICGIP 2022), 127050U (27 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2680008

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