Fast stitching algorithm for moving object detection and mosaic construction

This paper proposes a novel edge-based stitching method to detect moving objects and construct mosaics from images. The method is a coarse-to-fine scheme which first estimates a good initialization of camera parameters with two complementary methods and then refines the solution through an optimization process. The two complementary methods are the edge alignment and correspondence-based approaches, respectively. Since these two methods are complementary to each other, the desired initial estimate can be obtained more robustly. After that, a Monte-Carlo style method is then proposed for integrating these two methods together. Then, an optimization process is applied to refine the above initial parameters. Since the found initialization is very close to the exact solution and only errors on feature positions are considered for minimization, the optimization process can be very quickly achieved. Experimental results are provided to verify the superiority of the proposed method.