Producing complete image on vehicle driver display from overlapping camera images, employs coarse camera-specific calibration and fine photometric matching techniques

摘要

Image processing is applied. Individual images are geometrically-transformed coarsely, based on parameters of a camera-specific, geometric calibration model. The images are finely-matched geometrically in the overlapping regions, based on recovered parameters, by a camera-independent matching process. Individual images are photometrically-matched in the overlapping zones, based on brightness comparison there, of parameters recovered from the individual images.