针对目前图像拼接中计算量较大、实时性较差的问题, 本文提出了一种图像局部特征自适应的快速尺度不变特征变换(SIFT)拼接方法。首先, 对待拼接图像分块, 确定图像局部块的特征类型; 接着自适应采用不同的简化方法提取各局部块的特征点。然后, 通过特征匹配求出变换矩阵, 并结合RANSAC算法去除伪匹配对。最后, 通过图像融合得到最终的拼接图像。文中使用提出的方法对3组待拼接图像进行实验。从实验结果可以看出: 与标准拼接方法相比, 本文改进方法的计算速度提升了30%~45%。因此, 这种方法能够在保证图像拼接质量的前提下, 有效提高图像拼接的效率, 克服图像拼接中计算复杂度高的问题, 在实际图像拼接中具有一定的应用价值。

Aiming at the massive calculation burden and poor real-time performance of the existing image stitching methods, a fast image stitching method based on fast Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT) algorithm with adaptive local image feature is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the images are divided into blocks. And the feature types of thses local image blocks are determined. The feature points of the local image blocks are extracted using different simplified method adaptively. Secondly, we use feature matching to get the transform matrix and the RANSAC algorithm is applied to remove the wrong matching point pairs. Finally, the stitched image can be obtained by image blending. In this paper, three groups of to-be-stitched images are used to test the performance of the proposed method. Experimental results show that compared with the standard stitching algorithm, the calculation speed by the proposed method is increased by about 30%-45%. In conclusion, the proposed method improves the stitching efficiency and efficiently overcomes the shortcomings of heavy computation in the process of image stitching while it consistently guarantees the quality of stitched image. It has a certain application value in the actual image stitching.