Image Mosaicing from Uncalibrated Views of a Surface of Revolution
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چکیده
We present a novel approach to obtain a mosaic image for the surface texture content of a surface of revolution (SOR) from a collection of uncalibrated views. The SOR scene constraint is used to calibrate each view and align the corresponding pictorial content into a global representation. Metric surface properties are extracted from each view by exploiting special properties of the imaged SOR geometry expressed in terms of homologies. Image alignment is achieved by projecting imaged surface elements onto a reference plane, and then registering them according to a translational motion model. This work extends previous research on calibrated scenes of right circular cylinders to the more general case of uncalibrated SOR scenes. Experimental results with images taken from the web demonstrate the effectiveness and the general applicability of the approach.
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