Mosaic of UAV Aerial Video by Integrating Optical Flow Computation and Fourier-Mellin Transformation

UAV Video is rapidly emerging as a widely used source of imagery for many applications in recent years. This paper presents our research on the mosaic of UAV video for the purpose of harbor surveillance. First, one new framework on estimating video frame transformation with Optical flow is presented in this paper. For this new framework, fewer number of Gaussian pyramid is created for implementing for the multiresolution approach and thus, more details for optical flow computation is well kept; Second, we make a discussion on using Fourier-Mellin Transformation in image frequency domain to estimate initial motion parameter of adjacent video frames and with those initial motion parameters, small displacements for optical flow computation can be achieved; The experimental results demonstrated that the mosaic image generated from aerial video shows satisfied visual quality and its surveillance application for fast response to time-critical event, e.g., flood, is descried.