Project 6: Part 1 - Austin Leung

Images

When taking the photos, I stood in front of Doe Library at night, and took several photos from one position. I also took photos from one position in my room, rotating to capture all the images. Lastly, I took photos from several locations of the wall on Oxford Lane near Replica Digital Ink.

Doe Library at Night

My Room

Oxford Lane Wall

Recovering Homographies and Warping the Images

In order to recover homographies and warp the image, I calculated the H matrix using the corresponding points in each image, and then did a projective transformation using that H matrix. This shifted the second image to align with the first. Then, I blended the two images together via averaging.

Example 1: Doe Library

Original Images

Warped Image and Blended Image

Example 2: My Room

Original Images

Warped Image and Blended Image

Blending into a Mosaic

Here, I fixed the middle image, then aligned the left and right images with the center image, using the warping process from above.

Doe Library at Night

My Room

Oxford Lane Wall

Summary

What did I learn? You can pretty easily warp one image to align with another by finding the right 3x3 Matrix. However, blending images into a nice mosaic takes a lot more ironing out, and can be difficult when trying to have a smooth blend, include the entire transformed image (and not have part of it cut off), and blending multiple images.