Improved Video Mosaic Construction by Accumulated Alignment Error Distribution

Mosaic techniques have been used to obtain images with a large field of view from video sequences by assembling individual overlapping images. In existing methods of mosaic construction only consecutive frames are aligned. Accumulation of small alignment errors occur, and in the case of the image path returning to a previous position in the mosaic (looping path), a significant mismatch between non-consecutive frames will result. A new method for ensuring the consistency of the positions of all images in a mosaic is proposed. From the resulting improvement in mosaic quality, the new method enables construction of mosaics with a very large field of view.