Adaptive Hybrid Projective Models for Aerial Video Stitching

Aerial video stitching has been widely used in many fields such as large-scale videos surveillance, disaster monitoring and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation. Ghosting and parallax are challenging problems when the video streams are captured by UAV. This paper presents a novel method based on hybrid projective model which combines local warp alignment and global warp projection for better registration accuracy. The geometric alignment model is used for global registration of images and the content-preserving alignment model is used for local refinement. Simultaneously, reference frame is updated adaptively according to the shift of scenery, which is used to eliminate the cumulative error appearing in long video streams. The proposed approach has been tested under multiple datasets in different scenarios, which shows good performance.