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Paper:MA-P4.7
Session:Image Registration/Alignment and Mosaicking
Time:Monday, October 9, 09:40 - 12:20
Presentation: Poster
Title: WINDOWED IMAGE REGISTRATION FOR ROBUST MOSAICING OF SCENES WITH LARGE BACKGROUND OCCLUSIONS
Authors: Andreas Krutz; Technische Universität Berlin 
 Michael Frater; Australian Defence Force Academy 
 Matthias Kunter; Technische Universität Berlin 
 Thomas Sikora; Technische Universität Berlin 
Abstract: We propose an enhanced window-based approach to local image registration for robust video mosaicing in scenes with arbitrarily moving foreground objects. Unlike other approaches, we estimate accurately the image transformation without any pre-segmentation even if large background regions are occluded. We apply a windowed hierarchical frame-to-frame registration based on image pyramid decomposition. Experimental results show the excellent performance of the method compared to recently published methods. The image registration is sufficiently accurate to allow open-loop parameter accumulation for long-term motion estimation.