Automatic panorama stitching for mobile devices

随着移动的手机摄像头的改进，它们将很快成为消费者用来拍照的最常见的相机类型。 用户通常希望直接在移动的电话设备上执行任何期望的图像编辑，并将他们的照片发送给他们的朋友或在线相册。 我们研究的目的是为移动的手机创建一个软件应用程序，该软件应用程序可以执行当前在此类设备上不可用的特别有用的操作，即自动将多个图像拼接成单个较大的图像。 拼接是指识别一组图像中的重叠部分，并重建一个更大的图像，该图像将先前的图像与不可见的接缝相结合。 这使相机具有广角或360度成像能力，并且这种图像拼接工具作为桌面应用程序而流行。 然而，在它们可用于移动的设备之前，必须解决许多问题。 我们建议解决效率，直观的界面设计和平面拼接模型的问题，让我们流行的桌面Autostitch软件在当前的移动的手机平台上使用。 我们计划将苹果iPhone作为我们的第一款移动终端。

As mobile phone cameras improve, they will soon become the most common type of camera used by consumers to take photographs. Users will typically want to perform any desired image editing directly on the mobile phone device and send their photographs to their friends or on-line albums. The objective of our research is to create a software application for mobile phones that can perform a particularly useful operation that is not currently available on such devices, which is to automatically stitch multiple images into a single larger image. Stitching refers to the identification of overlapping portions among a set of images and the reconstruction of a single larger image that combines the previous images with no visible seams. This gives cameras a wide-angle or 360-degree imaging capability, and such image stitching tools are popular as desktop applications. However, a number of problems must be addressed before they can be made available for mobile devices. We propose to address issues of efficiency, intuitive interface design, and planar stitching models to allow our popular desktop Autostitch software to be used on current mobile phone platforms. We plan to target the Apple iPhone as our first mobile device.