Panorama image processing system using Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)
Nay Myo Aung · International Journal for Advance Research and Development · 2019
Image stitching is the process to generate one large panoramic image from collective relative image sequence without overlapping. Panoramic photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a panorama. The process to generate a panoramic view can be divided into three main components - image feature detection, image matching, and blending. Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) used to extract the features from the images and matching them which is a part of image registration. SIFT features are invariant to rotation, translation, image scaling and partially invariant to a 3D viewpoint, illumination changes and image noise. Image transformation is estimated using holography. Image blending technique is used to blend the images together to get a panoramic view. Main applications of panoramic view include creating a virtual environment for virtual reality, modeling the 3D environment using images acquired from the real world.