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Pedestrian-aware panoramic video stitching based on a structured camera array
Zhu, Anqi1; Zhang, Lin1; Chen, Juntao1; Zhou, Yicong2
2021-11-01
Source PublicationACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
ISSN1551-6857
Volume17Issue:4Pages:136
Abstract

The panorama stitching system is an indispensable module in surveillance or space exploration. Such a system enables the viewer to understand the surroundings instantly by aligning the surrounding images on a plane and fusing them naturally. The bottleneck of existing systems mainly lies in alignment and naturalness of the transition of adjacent images. When facing dynamic foregrounds, they may produce outputs with misaligned semantic objects, which is evident and sensitive to human perception. We solve three key issues in the existing workflow that can affect its efficiency and the quality of the obtained panoramic video and present Pedestrian360, a panoramic video system based on a structured camera array (a spatial surround-view camera system). First, to get a geometrically aligned 360g view in the horizontal direction, we build a unified multi-camera coordinate system via a novel refinement approach that jointly optimizes camera poses. Second, to eliminate the brightness and color difference of images taken by different cameras, we design a photometric alignment approach by introducing a bias to the baseline linear adjustment model and solving it with two-step least-squares. Third, considering that the human visual system is more sensitive to high-level semantic objects, such as pedestrians and vehicles, we integrate the results of instance segmentation into the framework of dynamic programming in the seam-cutting step. To our knowledge, we are the first to introduce instance segmentation to the seam-cutting problem, which can ensure the integrity of the salient objects in a panorama. Specifically, in our surveillance oriented system, we choose the most significant target, pedestrians, as the seam avoidance target, and this accounts for the name Pedestrian360. To validate the effectiveness and efficiency of Pedestrian360, a large-scale dataset composed of videos with pedestrians in five scenes is established. The test results on this dataset demonstrate the superiority of Pedestrian360 compared to its competitors. Experimental results show that Pedestrian360 can stitch videos at a speed of 12 to 26 fps, which depends on the number of objects in the shooting scene and their frequencies of movements. To make our reported results reproducible, the relevant code and collected data are publicly available at https://cslinzhang.github.io/Pedestrian360-Homepage/.

KeywordExtrinsic Calibration Instance Segmentation Panoramic Video Stitching Photometric Alignment Seam-cutting
DOI10.1145/3460511
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Information Systems ; Computer Science, Software Engineering ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods
WOS IDWOS:000748857800020
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85123321882
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Faculty of Science and Technology
Corresponding AuthorZhang, Lin
Affiliation1.School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 1239 Siping Road, China
2.Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau, Macao
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Zhu, Anqi,Zhang, Lin,Chen, Juntao,et al. Pedestrian-aware panoramic video stitching based on a structured camera array[J]. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2021, 17(4), 136.
APA Zhu, Anqi., Zhang, Lin., Chen, Juntao., & Zhou, Yicong (2021). Pedestrian-aware panoramic video stitching based on a structured camera array. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 17(4), 136.
MLA Zhu, Anqi,et al."Pedestrian-aware panoramic video stitching based on a structured camera array".ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 17.4(2021):136.
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