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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (8): 1534-1545.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.08.010

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Panoramic Image Stitching Algorithm with Multi-frame-based View Transformation for Vehicle Heterogeneous Platform

Lijuan Chen1,Kaixin Wang2(),Lei Wu2,Jiawei Lu2,De Wu1   

  1. 1.School of Computer Science and Engineering,Sanjiang University,Nanjing 210012
    2.China FAW Group Corporation,Nanjing 211100
  • Received:2025-01-23 Revised:2025-04-07 Online:2025-08-25 Published:2025-08-18
  • Contact: Kaixin Wang E-mail:117110022195@njust.edu.cn

Abstract:

Surround View System in ADAS (Advances Driver Assistance System) can effectively eliminate the driver's blind spots and reduce the accident rate. However, most existing vehicular panoramic imaging systems suffer from issues such as poor image quality, lack of smoothness, and low real-time performance. In this paper focusing on optimizing the image edge quality and algorithm real-time performance, a panoramic image-stitching algorithm based on multi-frame view transformation is proposed. Firstly, to solve the problem of reduced edge clarity and resolution of the fisheye camera correction image, the VDSR model is proposed to reconstruct the correction image. Secondly, a multi-frame-based view transformation algorithm is proposed, which accomplishes image perspective transformation while simultaneously performing image stitching, thereby reducing the algorithm's execution time. Additionally, motion compensation is applied to map adjacent frame fisheye images into the panoramic image, enhancing image quality. The vehicle experiments conducted on the in-vehicle heterogeneous platform show that compared with the single-frame view transformation, the panoramic images generated by the method proposed in this paper have improved by 2.27 dB and 0.022 in PSNR and SSIM indicators respectively, with the image output frame rate reaching 30 FPS, significantly enhancing the subjective visual quality of the panoramic images while ensuring real-time performance.

Key words: panoramic image stitching, perspective transformation, image super-resolution, image fusion