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Panoramic Image Stitching using Feature Extracting and Matching on Mobile Device

모바일 기기에서 특징적 추출과 정합을 활용한 파노라마 이미지 스티칭

  • Lee, Yong-Hwan (Dept. of Smart Mobile, Far East University) ;
  • Kim, Heung-Jun (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)
  • 이용환 (극동대학교 스마트모바일학과) ;
  • 김흥준 (경남과학기술대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Received : 2016.12.16
  • Accepted : 2016.12.26
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

Image stitching is a process of combining two or more images with overlapping area to create a panorama of input images, which is considered as an active research area in computer vision, especially in the field of augmented reality with 360 degree images. Image stitching techniques can be categorized into two general approaches: direct and feature based techniques. Direct techniques compare all the pixel intensities of the images with each other, while feature based approaches aim to determine a relationship between the images through distinct features extracted from the images. This paper proposes a novel image stitching method based on feature pixels with approximated clustering filter. When the features are extracted from input images, we calculate a meaning of the minutiae, and apply an effective feature extraction algorithm to improve the processing time. With the evaluation of the results, the proposed method is corresponding accurate and effective, compared to the previous approaches.

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