A panoramic video system by direct manipulation video navigation

This paper presents a panoramic video system by direct manipulation video navigation without any image stitching. Our panoramic video browsing is interacted with user by displaying overlapped region of consecutive input video frames with corresponding viewing angle. That is, when user slides, the panoramic video will switch video frames to corresponding viewing angle according to sliding distance. When user stops to slide, the video will display the overlapped region of consecutive video frames in the same viewing angle. The switching of viewing angle and cropping of the overlapped region are based on video frame registration. The major advantage of our method is to provide a panoramic video navigation from hand-held mobile camera phone with low computation and high quality. Comparing to other panoramic video stitching approaches, our method can guarantee no ghosting and no distortion. Our demo video is in http://youtu.be/XYpPAdypIuI for detail.