Title :
Automatic panorama generation from a video with dynamic background
Author :
Kumara, W.G.C.W. ; Shih-Ming Chang ; Shih, Timothy K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Jhongli, Taiwan
Abstract :
Panorama photos are very useful when capturing large scenic backgrounds like famous constructions or eye catching landscapes. Users normally prefer capturing such backgrounds with them or friends as the foreground, but the moving people in such popular locations always obstruct the iconic structure in the background. In this paper a solution for automatic panorama generation is presented which is capable of removing moving objects in the background. First user captures a short video starting from the centre of the focus area and then following a clockwise circular path. The proposed application generates the panorama based on input video following the steps: segmentation of human object, removal of moving human objects, and generation of panorama. Experimental output panorama photos show that the proposed system is very usable and results are satisfactory.
Keywords :
image reconstruction; image segmentation; video signal processing; automatic panorama generation; clockwise circular path; dynamic background; human object segmentation; image inpainting; moving human object removal; panorama photos; short video; Bismuth; Calibration; Cameras; Clustering algorithms; Feature extraction; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Automatic Panorama Creation; Image Inpainting;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Colombo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1275-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICTer.2013.6761148