Natural Image Stitching with the Global Similarity Prior

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This repository is our C++ implementation of the ECCV 2016 paper, Natural Image Stitching with the Global Similarity Prior. If you use any code or data from our work, please cite our paper.

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1. Poster, Short Presentation and Thesis Presentation
2. Paper
3. Supplementary
   • We tested four state-of-the-art methods and ours on 42 sets of images in same setting (grid size, feature points and parameters).
4. Input-42-data
5. All our results

Ubuntu Version

If you want to build this project under Ubuntu, please refer to https://github.com/Yannnnnnnnnnnn/NISwGSP Thanks a lot to @Yannnnnnnnnnnn!

Windows Version (Visual Studio)

If you want to build this project under Windows, please refer to https://github.com/firdauslubis88/NISwGSP Thanks a lot to @firdauslubis88!

Usage

1. Download code and compile.

   • You need Eigen, VLFeat, OpenCV 3.0.0 and OpenMP (if you don't need to use omp.h, you can ignore it.)
   • My GCC_VRSION is Apple LLVM 6.0

   GCC_C_LANGUAGE_STANDARD = GNU99 [-std=gnu99]
   CLANG_CXX_LANGUAGE_STANDARD = GNU++14 [-std=gnu++14]
   CLANG_CXX_LIBRARY = libc++ (LLVM C++ standard library with C++11 support)
   

   • My Eigen version is 3.2.7 (development branch). You need to make sure you can use "LeastSquaresConjugateGradient" class.

2. Download input-42-data.

   • 42 sets of images: 6 from [1], 3 from [2], 3 from [3], 7 from [4], 4 from [5] and 19 collected by ourselves.

3. Move [input-42-data] folder to your working directory.

4. Run the command:

   ./exe folder_name_in_[input-42-data]_folder
   

   The results can be found in [0_results] folder under [input-42-data] folder.

5. Optional:

   • You can control the parameters in Configure.h or xxx-STITCH-GRAPH.txt

Results

More natural:

AutoStitch	Ours	Ours(border)

AutoStitch	AANAP	Ours

AutoStitch	AANAP
Ours(2D)	Ours(3D)

Stitching of 20 images:

AANAP	Ours

Stitching of 35 images:

AANAP	Ours(2D)	Ours(3D)

Our method can be used to empower other methods with APAP’s alignment capability:

AutoStitch	AutoStitch + Ours	Ours

Debug mode

You can disable debug mode by adding NDEBUG macro. Otherwise you will see the intermediate which is located in the [1_debugs] folder under [input-42-data]. You can download all intermediate data. The intermediate example:

Border	Mesh

Initial Features	After sRANSAC

Line Data 1	Line Data 2

Speed

If you want to speed up, MATLAB solver is significantly faster than Eigen.

Publication

Yu-Sheng Chen and Yung-Yu Chuang.

National Taiwan University

Natural Image Stitching with Global Similarity Prior. Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision 2016 (ECCV 2016), Part V, pp. 186-201, October 2016, Amsterdam, Netherland.

Citation

@INPROCEEDINGS{Chen:2016:NIS,
	AUTHOR		= {Yu-Sheng Chen and Yung-Yu Chuang},
	TITLE		= {Natural Image Stitching with the Global Similarity Prior}, 
	YEAR		= {2016},
	MONTH		= {October},
	BOOKTITLE	= {Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016)},
	PAGES		= {V186--201},
	LOCATION	= {Amsterdam},
}

Reference

1. Chang, C.H., Sato, Y., Chuang, Y.Y.: Shape-preserving half-projective warps for image stitching. In: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 3254-3261. CVPR'14 (2014)
2. Gao, J., Kim, S.J., Brown, M.S.: Constructing image panoramas using dual-homography warping. In: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 49-56. CVPR'11 (2011)
3. Lin, C., Pankanti, S., Ramamurthy, K.N., Aravkin, A.Y.: Adaptive as-natural-as-possible image stitching. In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015, Boston, MA, USA, June 7-12, 2015. pp. 1155-1163 (2015)
4. Nomura, Y., Zhang, L., Nayar, S.K.: Scene collages and flexible camera arrays. In: Proceedings of the 18th Eurographics Conference on Rendering Techniques. pp. 127-138. EGSR'07 (2007)
5. Zaragoza, J., Chin, T.J., Brown, M.S., Suter, D.: As-projective-as-possible image stitching with moving dlt. In: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 2339-2346. CVPR'13 (2013)

Contact

Feel free to contact me if there is any question (Yu-Sheng Chen nothinglo@cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw).