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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
May. 29, 1998
Stephen Charles Hsu, East Windsor, NJ (US);
Rakesh Kumar, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Harpreet Singh Sawhney, Cranbury, NJ (US);
James R Bergen, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Doug Dixon, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Vince Paragano, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Gary Gendel, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus that determines the topology of a sequence of images and then globally aligns the images with respect to each image's neighboring images. The apparatus includes a topology determination module, a local coarse registration module, a local fine registration module, a global consistency module, and a color matching/blending module. To accurately render a mosaic image from a sequence of images the topology determination and global alignment processes are iterated to progressively produce accurately aligned images. The apparatus efficiently and accurately combines a plurality of source images into a seamless panoramic mosaic representation of a scene, of arbitrarily wide spatial and angular extent, regardless of the order of image acquisition.