Remapping
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The camera image has to be transformed into angle space, which here is visualised as projecting the image from a virtual camera, reversing the light path, onto a sphere. | The camera image has to be transformed into angle space, which here is visualised as projecting the image from a virtual camera, reversing the light path, onto a sphere. | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:13, 5 May 2008
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[edit] Definition
Remapping is the process of changing the image geometry in order to fit to the adjacent images that should contribute to a panorama.
It highly depends on aligning, since any alignment change of an image requires a different remapping. Remapping is an inherent part of the stitching process.
Although the software remaps in one single step, one can conceptually identify several logical steps.
[edit] Camera image to sphere
The camera image has to be transformed into angle space, which here is visualised as projecting the image from a virtual camera, reversing the light path, onto a sphere.
[edit] Relative alignment
Generally, one is free to choose any orientation of the virtual camera/projector. But for panoramic images, one wants to align these images. The usual software approach is to mark a set of same features in image pairs, and have the distance between such marker pairs minimised in an overall optimisation process.
[edit] Screen projection
Images in the computer environment are flat, hence one has to remap the spherical geometry. This can be a general mathematical mapping function. Some mappings, as the rectilinear projection below, can be visualised as an optical projection, using a point light source in the centre of the sphere.
