Panoramic EPI Generation and Analysis of Video from a Moving Platform with Vibration

This paper presents a novel approach for generating and analyzing epipolar plane images (EPIs) from video sequences taken from a moving platform subject to vibration so that the 3D model of an arbitrary scene can be constructed. Two problems are solved in our approach: (1) how to generate EPIs from video under a more general motion than a pure translation; (2) how to analyze the huge amount of data in the EPIs robustly and efficiently. For the first problem, a 3D image stabilization method is proposed which decouples the vibration from the vehicle's motion so that good EPIs and panoramic view images (PVIs) can be generated. For the second problem, we propose an efficient panoramic EPI analysis (PEPIA) method in which only one scanline of each EPI is processed. The PEPIA combines advantages of PVIs and EPIs and consists of three important steps: locus orientation detection, motion boundary localization, and occlusion/resolution recovery. The output of the PEPIA ? a layered 3D pano...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: CVPR
• Authors: Zhigang Zhu, Guangyou Xu, Xueyin Lin
• Keywords: Computer Vision, CVPR 1999, Efficient Panoramic Epi, Image Stabilization Method, Layered 3D Panorama, Motion Boundary Localization, Real Image Sequences