Adaptive Reference Image Selection for Temporal Object Removal from Frontal In-vehicle Camera Image Sequences

Toru Kotsuka, Daisuke Deguchi, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase

2015

Abstract

In recent years, image inpainting is widely used to remove undesired objects from an image. Especially, the removal of temporal objects, such as pedestrians and vehicles, in street-view databases such as Google Street View has many applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). To remove temporal objects, Uchiyama et al. proposed a method that combined multiple image sequences captured along the same route. However, when spatial alignment inside an image group does not work well, the quality of the output image of this method is often affected. For example, large temporal objects existing in only one image create regions that do not correspond to other images in the group, and the image created from aligned images becomes distorted. One solution to this problem is to select adaptively the reference image containing only small temporal objects for spatial alignment. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to remove temporal objects by integration of multiple image sequences with an adaptive reference image selection mechanism.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kotsuka T., Deguchi D., Ide I. and Murase H. (2015). Adaptive Reference Image Selection for Temporal Object Removal from Frontal In-vehicle Camera Image Sequences . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-089-5, pages 233-239. DOI: 10.5220/0005357102330239

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp15,
author={Toru Kotsuka and Daisuke Deguchi and Ichiro Ide and Hiroshi Murase},
title={Adaptive Reference Image Selection for Temporal Object Removal from Frontal In-vehicle Camera Image Sequences},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={233-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005357102330239},
isbn={978-989-758-089-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Adaptive Reference Image Selection for Temporal Object Removal from Frontal In-vehicle Camera Image Sequences
SN - 978-989-758-089-5
AU - Kotsuka T.
AU - Deguchi D.
AU - Ide I.
AU - Murase H.
PY - 2015
SP - 233
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0005357102330239