High-resolution Video Mosaicing for Documents and Photos by Estimating Camera Motion.pdf

High-resolution Video Mosaicing for Documents and Photos by Estimating Camera Motion Tomokazu Satoab, Sei Ikedaa, Masayuki Kanbaraab, Akihiko Iketanib, Noboru Nakajimab, Naokazu Yokoyaab, Keiji Yamadab a Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan b NEC, Ikoma, Nara, Japan ABSTRACT Recently, document and photograph digitization from a paper is very important for digital archiving and per- sonal data transmission through the internet. To realize easy and high quality digitization of documents and photographs, we propose a novel digitization method that uses a movie captured by a hand-held camera. In our method, first, 6-DOF(Degree Of Freedom) position and posture parameters of the mobile camera are estimated in each frame by tracking image features automatically. Next, re-appearing feature points in the image sequence are detected and stitched for minimizing accumulated estimation errors. Finally, all the images are merged as a high-resolution mosaic image using the optimized parameters. Experiments have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed method. Our prototype system can acquire initial estimates of extrinsic camera parameters in real-time with capturing images. Keywords: Video mosaicing, Extrinsic camera parameter recovery, Image feature tracking 1. INTRODUCTION In recent years, document and photograph digitization from a printed or drafted paper is very important for digital archiving and personal data transmission through the internet. Though many people wish to digitize documents on a paper easily, now heavy and large image scanners are required to obtain high quality digitization. To realize easy and high quality digitization of documents and photographs, a hand-held camera that can be freely moved is competent. A high-resolution image of a document is expected to be synthesized by applying a video mosaicing technique to a movie taken by the mobile camera. In the literature of video mosaicing, a number of methods have been