Techniques for Video Mosaicing

Video Mosaicing is the stitching of selected frames of a video by estimating the camera motion between the frames and thereby registering successive frames of the video to arrive at the mosaic. Different techniques have been proposed in the literature for video mosaicing. Despite of the large number of papers dealing with techniques to generate mosaic, only a few authors have investigated conditions under which these techniques generate good estimate of motion parameters. In this paper, these techniques are studied under different videos, and the reasons for failures are found. We propose algorithms with incorporation of outlier removal algorithms for better estimation of motion parameters.

Authors:

• P.Saravanan
• Narayanan .C.K.
• P.V.S.S Prakash
• Prabhakara Rao .G.V

Keywords:

• Motion parameters
• Outlier removal algorithms
• Registering
• and Video Mosaicing.

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