| 摘要 |
There is described a method of processing a plurality of images to determine one or more groups of images with each group of images forming a panorama. The method comprises identifying distinctive features in each image, comparing a distinctive feature in one image with distinctive features in other images to identify possible matching features, and processing said possible matches to determine said one or more groups of images. When comparing distinctive features, a distinctive feature in one image is only compared with a subset of the distinctive features in the other images which satisfy one or more predefined criteria. The criteria could involve the similarity of the images, or alternatively whether or not a decision on registration has already been made for the pair of images concerned. In this way, the number of feature comparisons is reduced. |
