Creating Full View Panoramic Image Mosaics and Environment Maps

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Creating Full View Panoramic Image Mosaics and Environment Maps (1997)

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by Richard Szeliski , Heung-Yeung Shum

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@MISC{Szeliski97creatingfull,
    author = {Richard Szeliski and Heung-Yeung Shum},
    title = {Creating Full View Panoramic Image Mosaics and Environment Maps},
    year = {1997}
}

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to creating full view panoramic mosaics from image sequences. Unlike current panoramic stitching methods, which usually require pure horizontal camera panning, our system does not require any controlled motions or constraints on how the images are taken (as long as there is no strong motion parallax). For example, images taken from a hand-held digital camera can be stitched seamlessly into panoramic mosaics. Because we represent our image mosaics using a set of transforms, there are no singularity problems such as those existing at the top and bottom of cylindrical or spherical maps. Our algorithm is fast and robust because it directly recovers 3D rotations instead of general 8 parameter planar perspective transforms. Methods to recover camera focal length are also presented. We also present an algorithm for efficiently extracting environment maps from our image mosaics. By mapping the mosaic onto an artibrary texture-mapped polyhedron surrounding t...

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environment map full view panoramic image mosaic image mosaic panoramic mosaic strong motion parallax spherical map singularity problem artibrary texture-mapped polyhedron camera focal length pure horizontal camera panning parameter planar perspective transforms current panoramic stitching method novel approach controlled motion image sequence hand-held digital camera full view panoramic mosaic

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