An optimized derivative projection warping approach for moving platform video stabilization

This paper presents an optimized and efficient video stabilization technique based on projection curve warping. In most of the recorded videos, the relative displacement between two consecutive frames goes from 3-4 pixel for hand-held and 25-30 for moving platform applications. Based on this experimental data, the use of Sakoe-Chiba band with fixed window size has been proposed for constraining distance matrix estimation, in the dynamic time warping algorithm. In the existing projection based stabilization techniques, intensity values are matched for motion estimation. Any change in the local intensity values either induced due to intensity variation, moving objects or scene variation, causes error in the estimated motion. To overcome this problem, a higher level feature i.e. shape of the projection curve has been incorporated by matching the local derivative of curve instead of the intensity values itself. Robustness and time efficiency of the proposed technique is measured in terms of interframe transformation fidelity and processing time respectively.