Author(s)

Sun Ye

Corresponding Author

Sun Ye

ABSTRACT

An approach for fast stitching of UAV images based on motion trajectory is proposed for high speed aerial photogrammetry in unfamiliar areas with few control points. It uses the method based on images to determine the motion trajectory and rapidly select the UAV trajectory images. The SIFT-based image feature matching algorithm is applied to extract feature matching points. This approach can effectively solve image stitching problems, such as translation, rotation, scaling, illumination, occlusion and different viewing angles.

KEYWORDS

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), fast image stitching, motion trajectory, SIFT algorithm