Aiming at the problems of limited instantaneity in current image stitching methods
a fast image stitching method through combining feature points detection on part of image with correction of projection error in the overlapping area in the process of image stitching was proposed. Firstly
the scope of the feature detection for the method only focused on part of image blocks in the overlapping area of the image which were needed to be stitched for obtaining information of feature points for Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). Secondly
after the feature matching
the correction method was used for projection error to make full use of limited matching points to figure out high-precision projection transformation matrix
in order to avoid unnecessary feature detections and matching searching for greatly accelerating the speed to stitch images. Finally
combining with quality evaluation method for image stitching
quality analysis was made on image stitching result for reflecting the performance of the improved method. The result of the experiment shows: compared with the fast image stitching method mentioned in references
on the premise of maintaining the stitching quality of the image
the method in the thesis significantly reduces the time for the stitching process. Among three experimental images
the average stitching speed is increased approximately by 54%
which shows the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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