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Panoramic Image Mosaics, by Yaniv Inbar
4/18/98 - 6/5/98
 
Abstract From the 1997 paper by Heung-Yeung Shum and Richard Szeliski [Shum97b]:

This paper presents some techniques for constructing panoramic image mosaics from sequences of images. Our mosaic representation associates a transformation matrix with each input image, rather than explicitly projecting all of the images onto a common surface (e.g., a cylinder). In particular, to construct a full view panorama, we introduce a rotational mosaic representation that associates a rotation matrix (and optionally a focal length) with each input image. A patch-based alignment algorithm is developed to quickly align two images given motion models. Techniques for estimating and refining camera focal lengths are also presented.