Generation of Spatial Temporal Panoramas with a Single Moving Camera
Development of image stitching techniques, whichtake multiple images and stitch them together to make naturallooking panoramas, is an integral part of the new wave invisual media the 360 surround displays, such as the OculusRift. However, as compared to static image stitching, there hasbeen little research conducted on video stitching, especiallymethods of generating panoramic video content from a singlemoving video camera. In this paper we present an effectivemeans of creating video panorama from a single camera. Ourvideo stitching method allows for widening the field of view ofa video while maintaining spatial temporal consistency. In thisapproach, a single image warping transformation, orhomography, is obtained by averaging several rotationmatrices from several frames. The application of the samehomography to every frame, with fixed camera intrinsicparameters, provides enhanced stability of the resultingpanoramic video. This novel stitching method can be used for avariety of applications, such as allowing the creation ofpanoramic video with smartphones and enabling gaming andmovie companies to make panoramic video content in a flexibleand inexpensive manner.
2016 13th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV)