Viewfinder Alignment

dc.contributor.authorAdams, Andrewen_US
dc.contributor.authorGelfand, Natashaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPulli, Karien_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-21T16:19:35Z
dc.date.available2015-02-21T16:19:35Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThe viewfinder of a digital camera has traditionally been used for one purpose: to display to the user a preview of what is seen through the camera s lens. High quality cameras are now available on devices such as mobile phones and PDAs, which provide a platform where the camera is a programmable device, enabling applications such as online computational photography, computer vision-based interactive gaming, and augmented reality. For such online applications, the camera viewfinder provides the user s main interaction with the environment. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for aligning successive viewfinder frames. First, an estimate of inter-frame translation is computed by aligning integral projections of edges in two images. The estimate is then refined to compute a full 2D similarity transformation by aligning point features. Our algorithm is robust to noise, never requires storing more than one viewfinder frame in memory, and runs at 30 frames per second on standard smartphone hardware. We use viewfinder alignment for panorama capture, low-light photography, and a camera-based game controller.en_US
dc.description.number2en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume27en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01157.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages597-606en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01157.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.titleViewfinder Alignmenten_US
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