Shooting a Smooth Video with a Shaky Camera

The image sequence in a video taken by a moving camera may suffer from
irregular perturbations because of irregularities in the motion of
the person or vehicle carrying the camera. We show how to use
information in the image sequence to correct the effects of these
irregularities so that the sequence is smoothed, i.e. is approximately
the same as the sequence that would have been obtained if the motion
of the camera had been smooth.


Paper: SmoothVideo.pdf (6.5MB)

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    Zoran Duric
    Last modified: Sat Jun 16 2001