Abstract.

This paper proposes an improvement for an existing and widely spread approach of panorama stitching for images of plane objects. The proposed method is based on projective transformations graph adjustment. Evaluation is presented on a heterogeneous dataset which contains images of Earth’s and Mars’s surfaces, images taken using a microscope, as well as handwritten and printed text documents. Quality enhancement of panorama stitching method is illustrated on this dataset and shows more than twofold reduction in the accumulated computation error of projective transforms.

Keywords:

projective transforms, panoramic images, video stream, image processing.

PP. 124-133.

DOI: 10.14357/20790279180514

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