Image Sequence Stabilization in Real Time

In this paper the problem of image stabilization is defined as follows: a camera mounted on a moving vehicle collects a sequence of images. The vehicle is trying to move along a smooth trajectory. In fact, however, the motion of the vehicle varies from the desired smooth motion; for a ground vehicle, this would primarily be due to roughness of the terrain. The goal of image stabilization is to correct the image sequence so that it corresponds, as closely as possible, to the sequence that would have been collected if the motion had actually been smooth, or at least piecewise smooth.