Abstract
We introduce a mobile system for creating high-resolution panoramic images. The user can rotate the camera around an arbitrary axis to create a 2D sweep and see a miniature preview panorama in real-time. The system tracks camera motion and automatically captures high-resolution images and generates a high-quality wide-view panoramic image. We employ a coarse-to-fine method for high-quality registration, and a seam-finding method to remove ghosting effects due to moving objects. The proposed system has been tested on several camera phones, and the tests reveal that the system can efficiently provide a high-quality panoramic image in spite of the low computational power and memory available in such devices.