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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2014
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Eth Zürich), Zürich, CH;
Federico Perazzi, Burbank, CA (US);
Alexander Sorkine Hornung, Burbank, CA (US);
Henning Zimmer, Burbank, CA (US);
Oliver Wang, Burbank, CA (US);
Peter Kaufmann, Burbank, CA (US);
Scott Watson, Burbank, CA (US);
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for generating a panoramic video from unstructured camera arrays. The systems and methods are configured to statically align corresponding image-frames of respective input video streams, warp the aligned image-frames according to a warping-order, and relax the warped image-frames thereby generating a temporally coherent panoramic video. Methods according to embodiments this invention utilize a new parallax-warping-error metric that is devised to capture structural differences created by parallax artifacts. The parallax-warping-error metric is effective in finding an optimal warping-order and in driving the warping process, resulting in a panoramic video with minimal parallax artifacts.