Stereo panoramic image stitching with a single camera

In this paper, we present stereo panoramic imaging method which generates stereo panoramas by stitching sequential images captured from a single camera under a hand-held sweeping condition. It is hard to take sequential images without a shake under a hand-held sweeping condition. The tilt of the camera makes the rotation of input images which causes the misaligned stereo panoramas. The misaligned stereo panoramas make the degradation of the stereo perception and the dizziness of the viewers. In order to make well-aligned stereo panoramas, we propose the vertical local alignment of the left and right strips using a reference panorama. The proposed method is measured against the existing method about in terms of disparity ranges.