Author : Madhura R. Shankarpure and Deepa Abin

Most of today’s mobile video recording devices, such as cell phones, use a rolling shutter camera. The video is captured by handheld camera, resulting in object or target image distortion shifting as well as frame-to-frame jitter. The traditional way of stabilizing the video is by using external accessories such as a tripod stand. The proposed application uses accelerometer and gyroscope to estimate camera orientation by the image distortion induced by video recording system movement using image processing with rolling shutter camera correction. To produce a smoothened camera motion, adaptive filter algorithms can be used and frame to frame jitter can be reduced using smoothing camera motion. The proposed application can be implemented on any android Smartphone which having inbuilt accelerometer and gyroscope sensors.

Keywords: Android Application; Rolling Shutter Camera; Video Stabilization; Accelerometer; Gyroscope