Measuring image quality in overlapping areas of panoramic composed images

Carles Mitjà; Toni Bover; Jaume Escofet

doi:10.1117/12.922256

30 April 2012 Measuring image quality in overlapping areas of panoramic composed images

Carles Mitjà, Toni Bover, Jaume Escofet

Proceedings Volume 8436, Optics, Photonics, and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications II; 843605 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922256
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Several professional photographic applications uses the merging of consecutive overlapping images in order to obtain bigger files by means of stitching techniques or extended field of view (FOV) for panoramic images. All of those applications share the fact that the final composed image is obtained by overlapping the neighboring areas of consecutive individual images taken as a mosaic or a series of tiles over the scene, from the same point of view. Any individual image taken with a given lens can carry residual aberrations and several of them will affect more probably the borders of the image frame. Furthermore, the amount of distortion aberration present in the images of a given lens will be reversed in position for the two overlapping areas of a pair of consecutive takings. Finally, the different images used in composing the final one have corresponding overlapping areas taken with different perspective. From all the previously stated can be derived that the software employed must remap all the pixel information in order to resize and match image features in those overlapping areas, providing a final composed image with the desired perspective projection. The work presented analyse two panoramic format images taken with a pair of lenses and composed by means of a state of the art stitching software. Then, a series of images are taken to cover an FOV three times the original lens FOV, the images are merged by means of a software of common use in professional panoramic photography and the final image quality is evaluated through a series of targets positioned in strategic locations over the whole taking field of view. That allows measuring the resulting Resolution and Modulation Transfer Function (MTF). The results are shown compared with the previous measures on the original individual images.

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Carles Mitjà, Toni Bover, and Jaume Escofet "Measuring image quality in overlapping areas of panoramic composed images", Proc. SPIE 8436, Optics, Photonics, and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications II, 843605 (30 April 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922256

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