Primary and auxiliary image capture devices for image processing and related methods
Disclosed herein are primary and auxiliary image capture devices for image processing and related methods. According to an aspect, a method may include using primary and auxiliary image capture devices to perform image processing. The method may include using the primary image capture device to capture a first image of a scene, the first image having a first quality characteristic. Further, the method may include using the auxiliary image capture device to capture a second image of the scene. The second image may have a second quality characteristic. The second quality characteristic may be of lower quality than the first quality characteristic. The method may also include adjusting at least one parameter of one of the captured images to create a plurality of adjusted images for one of approximating and matching the first quality characteristic. Further, the method may include utilizing the adjusted images for image processing.
1. An apparatus for creating an image of a scene, the apparatus comprising:
at least two image capture devices comprising of an image sensor and other components assisting in the capture process, wherein;
the first image capture device comprising a first image-quality characteristic;
the second image capture device comprising a second image-quality characteristic;
a processor, wherein said processor is configured to:
receive video data from the first and the second image capture devices;
for a pair of corresponding images obtained from the video data from the first and second capture devices;
adjust the image obtained from one image capture device to match at least one of the characteristics of the image obtained from the other image capture device, thus forming a modified pair of images;
calculate the disparity between the modified pair of images;
determine the areas of the images with constant disparity;
determine that objects in the modified pair of images with different disparity are moving objects;
perform motion compensation analysis between the pair of modified images:
remove motion vectors of moving objects;
use the remaining motion vectors to calculate the shaking vector;
utilize the shaking vector to perform video stabilization in one of the received videos.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processor adjusts one of a cropping factor, size, and scaling of one of the images of the image pair.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processor uses focal lengths and optical properties of the primary and auxiliary image capture devices to calculate an overlapping field of view and resolution, crop, and scale changes.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processor identifies distortion characteristics of the image capture devices; and performs a transformative procedure to correct distortion for equalizing the captured image pair.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processor adjusts a color of one image of the captured image pair to one of match and approximate a color of the other image.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processor adjusts a color of one image of the captured image pair to one of match and approximate a color of the other image.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processor extracts image features using one or more pixels from the images in the captured image pair;
matches extracted image features between the images in the captured image pair;
computes a transformation to adjust at least one of the matched image features between the images in the captured image pair;
applies the transformation to at least one of the images in the captured image pair creating an adjusted image; and
forms a transformed image pair by selecting two images from a second group of images including the adjusted and captured images.
8. An apparatus for creating an image of a scene, the apparatus comprising:
at least two image capture devices comprising of an image sensor and other components assisting in the capture process, wherein;
the first image capture device comprising a first image-quality characteristic;
the second image capture device comprising a second image-quality characteristic;
a processor, wherein said processor is configured to:
receive video data from the first and the second image capture devices;
for a pair of corresponding images obtained from the video data from the first and second capture devices;
adjust the image obtained from one image capture device to match at least one of the characteristics of the image obtained from the other image capture device, thus forming a modified pair of images,
calculate the disparity between the modified pair of images;
determine the areas of the images with constant disparity;
determine that objects in the modified pair of images with different disparity are moving objects;
perform motion compensation analysis between the pair of modified images;
remove motion vectors of moving objects;
use the remaining motion vectors to calculate the motion blur vector,
apply the motion blur vector to the image obtained from the first image capture device to create an enhanced image.