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Brief summary of the problem and previous work.

Background

Image stabilization can be done in many different ways. Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) feature tracking is one of the computationally inexpensive ways, in comparison to 2-D correlation and even SIFT. We chose Stan Birchfield's implementation because it is written in C and we found it easy to interface to in comparison with other open-source implementations.

When we have a set of common features between two images, we can 'undo' the transformation that makes the second image's features reside in a different location than the first, creating a new image whose features have similar locations to those in the first image.

In order to accomplish this, we use a series of least-squares affine transformations on the set of features to determine the `best' values for the un-affine we perform to correct the later image. After this, we then filter the resulting affine transformation, keeping the low-frequency movement (such as panning) and removing the high-frequency jitter.

Pictorally, the process is as such:

Visual representation of the process.

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Source:  OpenStax, Fall 2009 elec301 group project report: video stabilization. OpenStax CNX. Dec 21, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11152/1.1
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