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Fast Aerial Video Stitching
Author(s) -
Jing Li,
Tao Yang,
Jingyi Yu,
Zhaoyang Lu,
Ping Lü,
Xia Jia,
Wenjie Chen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of advanced robotic systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1729-8814
pISSN - 1729-8806
DOI - 10.5772/59029
Subject(s) - image stitching , computer science , artificial intelligence , computer vision , frame rate , robustness (evolution) , feature (linguistics) , feature extraction , frame (networking) , key frame , telecommunications , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , gene
The highly efficient and robust stitching of aerial video captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem in the field of robot vision. Existing commercial image stitching systems have seen success with offline stitching tasks, but they cannot guarantee high-speed performance when dealing with online aerial video sequences. In this paper, we present a novel system which has an unique ability to stitch high-frame rate aerial video at a speed of 150 frames per second (FPS). In addition, rather than using a high-speed vision platform such as FPGA or CUDA, our system is running on a normal personal computer. To achieve this, after the careful comparison of the existing invariant features, we choose the FAST corner and binary descriptor for efficient feature extraction and representation, and present a spatial and temporal coherent filter to fuse the UAV motion information into the feature matching. The proposed filter can remove the majority of feature correspondence outliers and significantly increase the speed of robust feature matching by up to 20 times. To achieve a balance between robustness and efficiency, a dynamic key frame-based stitching framework is used to reduce the accumulation errors. Extensive experiments on challenging UAV datasets demonstrate that our approach can break through the speed limitation and generate an accurate stitching image for aerial video stitching tasks

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