Gwak, M., Lee, C., Lee, H., Cheong, W.S. and Yang, S., 2019. Moving Object Preserving Seamline Estimation. Journal of Broadcast Engineering, 24(6), pp.992-1001.

Abstract –  In many applications, images acquired from multiple cameras are stitched to form an image with a wide viewing angle. We propose a method of estimating a seam line using motion information to stitch multiple images without distortion of the moving object. Existing seam estimation techniques usually utilize an energy function based on image gradient information and parallax. In this paper, we propose a seam estimation technique that prevents distortion of moving object by adding temporal motion information, which is calculated from the gradient information of each frame. We also propose a measure to quantify the distortion level of stitched images and to verify the performance differences between the existing and proposed methods.