360° Panorama Generation using Drone Mounted Fisheye Cameras

摘要

We propose a system that produces a high quality 360° panorama from images captured by fisheye cameras mounted on a drone. The hardware of the system is designed in such a way that no user input is required to stitch the individual images. The auxiliary equipment such as drone wings and legs are not a part of the automatically stitched panorama. Hence, no additional post processing is required to remove unwanted artifacts. Automatic stitching is performed using Nvidia VRWorks 360 SDK. The stitched panorama has no visible seams in it. Furthermore, the panorama is automatically straightened with respect to the horizon.