Grant: Idea to Innovation
University of British Columbia
$119,060.00
Automatic panorama stitching for mobile devices
EF 2008-09
Résumé
As mobile phone cameras improve, they will soon become the most common type of camera used by consumers to take photographs. Users will typically want to perform any desired image editing directly on the mobile phone device and send their photographs to their friends or on-line albums. The objective of our research is to create a software application for mobile phones that can perform a particularly useful operation that is not currently available on such devices, which is to automatically stitch multiple images into a single larger image. Stitching refers to the identification of overlapping portions among a set of images and the reconstruction of a single larger image that combines the previous images with no visible seams. This gives cameras a wide-angle or 360-degree imaging capability, and such image stitching tools are popular as desktop applications. However, a number of problems must be addressed before they can be made available for mobile devices. We propose to address issues of efficiency, intuitive interface design, and planar stitching models to allow our popular desktop Autostitch software to be used on current mobile phone platforms. We plan to target the Apple iPhone as our first mobile device.
Programme
Idea to Innovation
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
British Columbia, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
372439-2008
Name nom
Lowe, David
Department département
Computer Science
Organization id
2
Institution établissement
University of British Columbia
Province en
British Columbia
Province fr
Colombie-Britannique
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2008
Competition year année de concours
2008
Award amount
119060
Program id
I2IPJ
Program nane en
Idea to Innovation
Program name fr
De l'idée à l'innovation
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
1207
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Information, computer and communication technologies
Area of application fr
Technologie de l'information, des ordinateurs et des réseaux de communications
Research subject code
2708
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Image processing
Research subject fr
Traitement des images
Partie
1 & 2
Nb partie
2
Application title
Automatic panorama stitching for mobile devices
Keyword
NA
Application summary
As mobile phone cameras improve, they will soon become the most common type of camera used by consumers to take photographs. Users will typically want to perform any desired image editing directly on the mobile phone device and send their photographs to their friends or on-line albums. The objective of our research is to create a software application for mobile phones that can perform a particularly useful operation that is not currently available on such devices, which is to automatically stitch multiple images into a single larger image. Stitching refers to the identification of overlapping portions among a set of images and the reconstruction of a single larger image that combines the previous images with no visible seams. This gives cameras a wide-angle or 360-degree imaging capability, and such image stitching tools are popular as desktop applications. However, a number of problems must be addressed before they can be made available for mobile devices. We propose to address issues of efficiency, intuitive interface design, and planar stitching models to allow our popular desktop Autostitch software to be used on current mobile phone platforms. We plan to target the Apple iPhone as our first mobile device.
