Most mobile video-recording devices of today, e.g. cell phones and music players, make use of a rolling shutter camera. A rolling shutter camera captures video by recording every frame line-by-line from top to bottom of the image, leading to image distortions in situations where either the device or the target is moving. Recording video by hand also leads to visible frame-to-frame jitter.
In this study, methods to decrease distortion caused by the motion of a video-recording device with a rolling shutter camera are presented. The methods are based on estimating the orientation of the camera from gyroscope and accelerometer measurements.
The algorithms are implemented on the iPod Touch 4, and the resulting videos are compared to those of competing stabilization software, both commercial and free, in a series of blind experiments. The results from this user study shows that the methods presented in the study perform equal to or better than the others.
Source: Linköping University
Author: Hanning, Gustav
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