360° Virtual-World Imaging
Kelvin Chew Tiong Meng
Email:
[email protected]
B.Eng. Final Year Project 2000/2001
The University of Birmingham
School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
The objectives of my project is to develop and implement a digital imaging method to create a panoramic image that has a 360° horizontal field of view. Implementation of the above method was carried out using MATLAB 5.0 with the Image Processing Toolbox v2.2. Most of the processing were done on Sun Solaris systems.
The user has to select either 3 or 4 corresponding points to calculate the
Affine
or
Projective
Transformations respectively. The transformations were then computed in order to warp an image onto the projection of another. The warped image was resampled using
bilinear interpolation
. A
weighted average spline
was then applied to the component images, eliminating visible seams at the image borders. These images were then summed together, resulting in a completed mosaic. Finally, a series of mosaics were combined to create a full panorama.
Click to view Sections:
1.
Theory.
- the maths and methods behind it all.
2.
Screenshot of my program.
- screenshot of my program after merging 2 images and the results.
3.
Collection of my mosaics.
- some of my favourite mosaics that i have merged using my program.
4.
Final Viewable 360degree panoramas.
- the INTERESTING part!! Virtual-World 360degree Imaging.
i.
360degree Panorama of the Vale
- high resolution...takes a long time to load
ii.
360degree Panorama of the Groundfloor of my Department.
- high resolution...takes a long time to load