Combine pictures by using SIFT
Progress:
STAGE 1: FINISHED
Translate and understand Lowe's paper
STAGE 2: FINISHED
Compare sample code to his paper, debug and understand his code
STAGE 3: UNDER PROCESS
Write my own program base on his sample,see why and how it works.
STAGE 4: NOT STARTED YET
Improve his code and add SURF-SIFT algorithm to the sample code.
Detail:
Papers in STAGE 1:
[1] D. G. Lowe. Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2004.
[2] Y. Ke and R. Sukthankar, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004
Code used in STAGE 2:
Since there is no MATLAB in my computer lab. I will use Rob Hess's code instead of David lowe's.
The code I started to learn was programmed by Rob Hess.
OpenCV and GSL library must be installed to compile the code.
Original code can be downloaded here: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~hess/
Program in STAGE 3:
Main feature of the program:
Find relevant areas in each picture, combine them to one image.
I expect the final program can combine several images captured by cell phones or cameras to a 360 degree image like Google street view does.
Current progress:
Combine several images to one:
img1:
img2:
img3:
img4:
After combined:
temporary output:
