Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 26-31, 2013, Vancouver, Canada.

3D Rotational Video Stabilization Using Manifold Optimization

Chao Jia and Brian L. Evans

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wireless Networking and Communications Group, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
kurtjc@gmail.com - bevans@ece.utexas.edu

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Videos: Example 1 vs. [5] - Example 1 vs. [7] - Example 1 vs. Original - Example 2 vs. [5] - Example 2 vs. [7] - Example 2 vs. Original

Abstract

We present a novel video stabilization method for cell phone cameras. Our video stabilization is based on pure 3D rotation motion model, which can better capture the motion of the camera compared with 2D models. The 3D camera rotation can be reliably captured by gyroscopes equipped in most modern cell phones. In this paper we directly smooth the sequence of camera rotation matrices in the video. Our contributions are
  1. a novel smoothness metric for a sequence of 3D rotation matrices based on geodesic distance on non-linear manifold, and
  2. an efficient global motion smoothing algorithm using manifold optimization.
Our smoothness metric better exploits the manifold structure on sequences of rotation matrices. Experimental results show that our video stabilization method outperforms state of the art methods by generating more stable and visually pleasant videos.


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