Chandrika Jayant <br>
Vision Project # 2 <br>
4/28/05 <br>

<h1>PANORAMIC MOSAIC STITCHING</h1><br>


<h2>Test Results</h2>




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<h2>Results: Test Set of Images</h2><br>

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<a href="images/panorama1.html"><img src="panTestStitchImage2.jpg" height = "249" width = "1869"></img></a>
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<a href = "images/livepic.html">See image using Live Picture</a>
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<h2>Results: Kaidan Head Images</h2><br>
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<a href="images/panorama2.html"><img src="pan1StitchImage2.jpg" height = "307" width = "2100"></img></a>
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<a href = "images/livepic2.html">See image using Live Picture</a>
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<h2>Results: Hand Held Images</h2><br>
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<a href="images/panorama3.html"><img src="panHand2StitchImage2.jpg" height = "235" width = "1774"></img></a>
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<a href = "images/livepic3.html">See image using Live Picture</a>
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<h2>What Worked</h2><br>
The first 2 sets worked very well because there was no rotational invariance from
one shot to the next (as in, the shots were kept at a very similar incline- the
y value hardly changes at all). Features are matched very well and blending
looks nearly perfect even though just the very simple hat function is used.

<h2>What Didn't Work</h2><br>
The last set (the handheld pictures) obviously doesn't look as good as the 1st
2. I took these pictures with my own personal digital camera, and used Brett
Allen's method of camera calibration to get the focal length of my camera. I
think that when warping the images here, something went wrong. The focal
length was determined with a very primitive method (book, box, and ruler). And
I just had to estimate the k1 and k2 values based on what was on the webpage.
Considering all that guesswork, the panorama doesn't look half bad- features
are well matched.

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Note: I manually cropped out the black top/bottom of .jpg images for
aesthetic purposes for the website, but this was not done automatically.
Cropping on the left and right sides were done as part of the program.