Mobile panoramic imaging system

Author

Pulli, Kari ; Tico, Marius ; Xiong, Yingen

Author_Institution

Nokia Res. Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

13-18 June 2010

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

115

Abstract

We introduce a mobile system for creating high-resolution panoramic images. The user can rotate the camera around an arbitrary axis to create a 2D sweep and see a miniature preview panorama in real-time. The system tracks camera motion and automatically captures high-resolution images and generates a high-quality wide-view panoramic image. We employ a coarse-to-fine method for high-quality registration, and a seam-finding method to remove ghosting effects due to moving objects. The proposed system has been tested on several camera phones, and the tests reveal that the system can efficiently provide a high-quality panoramic image in spite of the low computational power and memory available in such devices.

Keywords

cameras; image registration; image representation; 2D sweep; camera motion; coarse-to-fine method; ghosting effects; high quality registration; mobile panoramic imaging system; seam finding method; Cameras; Image generation; Layout; Milling machines; Optical devices; Optical imaging; Optical sensors; Real time systems; System testing; Tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

2160-7508

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7029-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543792

Filename

5543792