Color feature and density-based image mosaicing using repeated application of the ICP algorithm

Samuel H Chang; Joseph Fuller; Ali Farsaie; Les Elkins

doi:10.1117/12.524846

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21 May 2004 Color feature and density-based image mosaicing using repeated application of the ICP algorithm

Samuel H Chang, Joseph Fuller, Ali Farsaie, Les Elkins

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Proceedings Volume 5299, Computational Imaging II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524846
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

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A Color Feature and Density based (CFD) image mosaicing (IM) algorithm is presented in this paper. In the initial step, color image segmentation is used to provide a global match between an image pair. The well-known Iterated Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is used to find a transformation for global alignment. Finally, the ICP algorithm is applied again to find a transformation for local adjustment. By using this approach, it is shown that we can guarantee global alignment accuracy because the feature based method is used to find the initial matching of two image frames. We achieve local optimal pixel alignment based on the minimization of the Sum of Squares of Differences (SSD) between two images from the same overlapping area.

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Samuel H Chang, Joseph Fuller, Ali Farsaie, and Les Elkins "Color feature and density-based image mosaicing using repeated application of the ICP algorithm", Proc. SPIE 5299, Computational Imaging II, (21 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524846

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