High-performance electronic image stabilisation for shift and rotation correction

Steve C. J. Parker; D. L. Hickman; F. Wu

doi:10.1117/12.2050267

9 June 2014 High-performance electronic image stabilisation for shift and rotation correction

Steve C. J. Parker, D. L. Hickman, F. Wu

Proceedings Volume 9076, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications XI; 907602 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050267
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

A novel low size, weight and power (SWaP) video stabiliser called HALO™ is presented that uses a SoC to combine the high processing bandwidth of an FPGA, with the signal processing flexibility of a CPU. An image based architecture is presented that can adapt the tiling of frames to cope with changing scene dynamics. A real-time implementation is then discussed that can generate several hundred optical flow vectors per video frame, to accurately calculate the unwanted rigid body translation and rotation of camera shake. The performance of the HALO™ stabiliser is comprehensively benchmarked against the respected Deshaker 3.0 off-line stabiliser plugin to VirtualDub. Eight different videos are used for benchmarking, simulating: battlefield, surveillance, security and low-level flight applications in both visible and IR wavebands. The results show that HALO™ rivals the performance of Deshaker within its operating envelope. Furthermore, HALO™ may be easily reconfigured to adapt to changing operating conditions or requirements; and can be used to host other video processing functionality like image distortion correction, fusion and contrast enhancement.

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Steve C. J. Parker, D. L. Hickman, and F. Wu "High-performance electronic image stabilisation for shift and rotation correction", Proc. SPIE 9076, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications XI, 907602 (9 June 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050267

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