Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 655-665Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2019.2932573
Keywords
Stereo image processing; Distortion; Two dimensional displays; Visualization; Minimization methods; Shape; Feature extraction; Stereoscopic image; image stitching; disparity consistency; multi-constraint warping; seam-cutting and blending
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB1002900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61722112, 61520106002, 61620106009, U1636214]
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin [18ZXZNGX00110, 18JCJQJC45800]
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As a significant branch of virtual reality, stereoscopic image stitching aims to generating wide perspectives and natural-looking scenes. Existing 2D image stitching methods cannot be successfully applied to the stereoscopic images without considering the disparity consistency of stereoscopic images. To address this issue, this paper presents a stereoscopic image stitching method based on disparity-constrained warping and blending, which could avoid visual distortion and preserve disparity consistency. First, a point-line-driven homography based disparity minimization method is designed to pre-align the left and right images and reduce vertical disparity. Afterwards, a multi-constraint warping is proposed to further align the left and right images, where the initial disparity map is introduced to control the consistency of disparities. Finally, a disparity consistency seam-cutting and blending method is presented to determine the optimal seam and conduct stereoscopic image stitching. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive performance compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
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