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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsDrew Steedly, Richard Szeliski, Matthew Uyttendaele, Michael Cohen
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An “Oblique Image Stitcher” provides a technique for constructing a photorealistic oblique view from a set of input images representing a series of partially overlapping views of a scene. The Oblique Image Stitcher first projects each input image onto a geometric proxy of the scene and renders the images from a desired viewpoint. Once the images have been projected onto the geometric proxy, the rendered images are evaluated to identify optimum seams along which the various images are to be blended. Once the optimum seams are selected, the images are remapped relative to those seams by leaving the mapping unchanged at the seams and interpolating a smooth mapping between the seams. The remapped images are then composited to construct the final mosaiced oblique view of the scene. The result is a mosaic image constructed by warping the input images in a photorealistic manner which agrees at seams between images.
A system for constructing a mosaic image of a scene from a plurality of images of the scene, comprising using a computing device for:
A computer readable storage device having computer executable instructions stored thereon for automatically constructing a photorealistic mosaiced image from a series of partially overlapping images of a scene, said computer executable instructions comprising:
A method for constructing a photorealistic view from a set of input images of a scene, comprising steps for:
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