ImageStabilizer

Image stabilization using features detector in IOS and Android

Overview

Image stabilization is a essential technique when you take images using continuous shooting. There are many approaches to solve this problem but this project use the feature extraction.

• At first, Extract features from image using Feature extractor like SIFT, SURF. In this project, I use FAST+ORB, because it is fast and there is no patent issue.
• Find Matching features in two images. There are many matching technique but I just use Bruteforce Matcher because it is simple and result is not bad in this project.
• Last, Get geometric transformation matrix which is minimize error of transformed points. RANSAC is used for this process.

All this process are simply implemented using OpenCV

Screenshot

Top animated image shows original images and bottom animated image is stabilized images using ImageStabilizer.

Requirement

1. OpenCV Framework

Usage

Import ImageStabilizer

  #import "ImageStabilizer.h"
  ImageStabilizer* stabilizer = [[ImageStailizer alloc] init];

Set first image to compare with others.

  -(void) setStabilizeSourceImage:(UIImage*) sourceImage;

Get stabilized image

  -(UIImage*) stabilizeImage:(UIImage*)targetImage;

Get stabilized image in android

public ArrayList<Bitmap> stabilizedImages(ArrayList<Bitmap> originals);

Limitation

This program is based on OpenCV library. It doesn't use GPU in IOS. it is obviously more slower than library that it uses GPU. So I want to improve this code to use GPU like GPUImage.

References

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13423884/how-to-use-brisk-in-opencv
• http://docs.opencv.org/master/db/d70/tutorial_akaze_matching.html#gsc.tab=0
• https://www.willowgarage.com/sites/default/files/orb_final.pdf

License

ImageStabilizer is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for full license text.

    Copyright (c) 2015 Naver Corp.
    @Author Eunchul Jeon

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    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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            http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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