Mosaicing with Generalized Strips

Video mosaicing is commonly used to increase the e ective visual eld of view. Existing mosaicingmethods are based on image alignment, and are e ective only in very limited cases. To overcome most restrictions, mosaicing is presented in this paper as a process of collecting strips. Strips which are perpendicular to the optical ow are cut out of the images, and are warped so that within each strip the optical ow will be parallel. These strips are then pasted into the mosaic. This approach enables to de ne mosaicing even for cases of forward motion and for zoom. View interpolation, generating dense intermediate views, is used to overcome parallax e ects.