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In the traditional manifold mosaic, a single center strip is clipped out from each source image to create a large image. Therefore the displacement between neighboring views should be very small in order to fulfill effective strips cutting. In this paper, a method is proposed to create a manifold mosaic by images with relative large displacement by means of cutting out multiple strips in the overlap area according to the homography between images. These strips are then warped together to create a smooth mosaic. An improved RANSAC algorithm is also presented in order to improve the precision of homography calculation. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the method.
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A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Proc. Pacific Graphics 2005, Macau.
project is funded by the National Key Basic Research 973 Program of China (Grant No. 2002CB312100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60533080) and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of MOE.
Xian-Yong Fang is a Ph.D. candidate of the State Key Lab. of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University. His research interests are computer graphics, computer vision and image processing.
Ming-Min Zhang is an associate professor of Computer and Engineering Department, Zhejiang University. She got the B.S. degree from Computer Science Dept., Nanjing University in 1990, and the Master degree from Computer Science and Engineering Department, Zhejiang University in 1995. She has published more than 20 papers on international journals, national journals, and conferences in recent years. She is the co-author of two books related to computer graphics and multimedia. Her research interests include: virtual reality/virtual environment, multi-resolution modeling, real-time rendering, distributed VR, visualization, multimedia and image processing.
Zhi-Geng Pan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Computer Science Department, Nanjing University in 1987 and 1990 respectively, and Ph.D. degree in 1993 from Zhejiang University. He has published more than 70 papers on journals and international conferences. He acted as one of the Guest Editors of a Special Issue of Computers & Graphics (“Computer Graphics in China”). Dr. Pan is a member of SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and IEEE. He is on the directorial board of the International Society of VSMM (Virtual System and Multimedia), a member of IFIP Technical Committee on Entertainment Computing (acting as representative from China). He is the program co-chair of Edutainment’2006.
Peng Wang is a Ph.D. candidate of the State Key Lab. of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University. His research interests are image processing, computer graphics and computer vision.
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Fang, XY., Zhang, MM., Pan, ZG. et al. A New Method of Manifold Mosaic for Large Displacement Images. J Comput Sci Technol 21, 218–223 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-006-0218-2
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