ILLUMINATION CORRECTION FOR IMAGE STITCHING

Sascha Klement, Fabian Timm, Erhardt Barth

2011

Abstract

Inhomogeneous illumination occurs in nearly every image acquisition system and can hardly be avoided simply by improving the quality of the hardware and the optics. Therefore, software solutions are needed to correct for inhomogeneities, which are particularly visible when combining single images to larger mosaics, e.g. when wrapping textures onto surfaces. Various methods to remove smoothly varying image gradients are available, but often produce artifacts at the image boundary. We present a novel correction method for compensating these artifacts based on the Gaussian pyramid and an appropriate extrapolation of the image boundary. Our framework provides various extrapolation methods and reduces the illumination correction error significantly. Moreover, the correction is done in real-time for high-resolution images and is part of an application for virtual material design.

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Klement S., Timm F. and Barth E. (2011). ILLUMINATION CORRECTION FOR IMAGE STITCHING . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IMAGAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-46-1, pages 81-86. DOI: 10.5220/0003323300810086


in Bibtex Style

@conference{imagapp11,
author={Sascha Klement and Fabian Timm and Erhardt Barth},
title={ILLUMINATION CORRECTION FOR IMAGE STITCHING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IMAGAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={81-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003323300810086},
isbn={978-989-8425-46-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IMAGAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - ILLUMINATION CORRECTION FOR IMAGE STITCHING
SN - 978-989-8425-46-1
AU - Klement S.
AU - Timm F.
AU - Barth E.
PY - 2011
SP - 81
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0003323300810086