Mosaicing with Generalized Strips
Benny Rousso, Bezalel Peleg, Ilan Finci · 1998
Video mosaicing is commonly used to increase the effective visual field of view. Existing mosaicing methods are based on image alignment, and are effective only in very limited cases. To overcome most restrictions, mosaicing is presented in this paper as a process of collecting strips. Strips which are perpendicular to the optical flow are cut out of the images, and are warped so that within each strip the optical flow will be parallel. These strips are then pasted into the mosaic. This approach enables to define mosaicing even for cases of forward motion and for zoom. View interpolation, generating dense intermediate views, is used to overcome parallax effects. 1 Introduction An introduction and a survey of mosaicing methods can be found in [6]. We will only give a brief introduction focusing on the aspects relevant to this work. Early mosaicing methods were used for aerial and satellite images. In both cases the objects in the scene are distant from the camera, and camera motion co...