Camera lens smoothing method and portable terminal

Abstract

A camera lens smoothing method includes: obtaining a current video frame of a camera video and gyroscope information of the current video frame, and calculating a current first rotation matrix; conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix; conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix; and conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding an anti-shake video.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure belongs to the field of videos, and particularly relates to a smoothing method of a motion camera lens and a portable terminal.

BACKGROUND

At present, when a motion camera photographs a motion scene, a video lens for photographing may shake to affect the photographing quality and the watching experience of a video. Therefore, there is a need for studying a method of improving shaking of a video lens of a camera.

At present, one of solutions is to use a pan-tilt stabilization camera to enable a photographed picture to be stable. However, the disadvantages of this solution are that a pan-tilt is large in volume, and the problem that the picture shakes when a panorama photographing device is held by hands to photograph the video also exists.

SUMMARY

In the first aspect, embodiment of the present disclosure provides a camera lens smoothing method, including:

• • obtaining a current video frame of a camera video and gyroscope information of the current video frame, and calculating a current first rotation matrix;
  • conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix;
  • conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix;
  • conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding an anti-shake video.

In the second aspect, embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer readable storage medium stores a computer program. When the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the camera lens smoothing method according to the first aspect are implemented.

In the third aspect, embodiment of the present disclosure provides a portable terminal, including:

• • one or more processors;
  • a memory; and
  • one or more computer programs, stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, wherein when the processor executes the computer program, the steps of the camera lens smoothing method according to the first aspect are implemented.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a camera lens smoothing method according to Embodiment 1 of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 2 is a structural schematic diagram of a portable terminal according to Embodiment 3 of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to make the purposes, the technical solutions and the beneficial effects of the present disclosure more clearly and unambiguously, the present disclosure is further clarified based on the following drawings and examples. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described here are for illustrating and explaining the present disclosure merely, but not used for limiting the present disclosure.

The Chinese patent “entitled with Video Image Stabilization Method For Micro-Nano Satellite with a Publication No. CN106027852B” discloses a video image stabilization method for a micro-nano satellite, aiming to using only one attitude sensor-gyroscope on a built micro-nano satellite platform to process a shaking video by physical information obtained by the attitude sensor gyroscope in combination with information of the video photographed by a micro camera, to achieve image stabilization. However, the method requires to use the video information to conduct matching between a front frame and a back frame and the like and thus is relatively complex in process.

Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a camera lens smoothing method, an apparatus and a portable terminal and aims at enabling a video lens of a motion camera to conduct adaptive adjustment and thus preventing the video lens from shaking. By using the embodiments of the present disclosure, a cropping view angle may be reduced to the maximum while smoothing is conducted.

In order to describe the technical solutions of the present disclosure, description is made through the specific embodiments below.

Embodiment 1

Referring to FIG. 1, a camera lens smoothing method according to Embodiment 1 of the present disclosure includes the following steps:

• • S101. obtaining a current video frame of a camera video and gyroscope information of the current video frame, and calculating a current first rotation matrix;
  • the camera may be an ordinary motion camera and may further be a motion camera with a wide-angle lens and the like;
  • the current video frame of the camera video is obtained;
  • the gyroscope information corresponding to the current video frame is obtained; and
  • the first rotation matrix is a current position matrix of the camera and is calculated by a method in the Chinese patent “entitled with Panoramic Video Anti-Shake Method, Apparatus And Portable terminal with an Application No. 2018115496436”.
  • S102. Conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix;
  • the conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix specifically includes:
  • S1021, conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain a second rotation matrix; and
  • S1022, calculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting smoothing maximum amplitude value.

A method of conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix specifically includes:

• • S10211, conducting first smoothing on a quaternion of the first rotation matrix with constrained least squares by employing N+1 windows, wherein N is a natural number larger than or equal to 1, and calculating to obtain the second rotation matrix, wherein the first smoothing employs a formula:

${\tilde{q}}_t^k=\arg \min \sum _{k=t-N/2}^{t+N/2}{A\left(q_k\right)-A\left(q\right)}_F^2,q\in S^3,$ where q=[v,u]^T is the quaternion,

$A\left(q\right)=\left(u^2-{v}^2\right)I_{3\times 3}+2v{v}^T-2{u\left[v\right]}_x,{\left[v\right]}_x=\left[\begin{array}{ccc}0& -v_3& v_2\\ v_3& 0& -v_1\\ -v_2& v_1& 0\end{array}\right].$

After the step S10211, second smoothing may further be conducted on the second rotation matrix by employing an iterative amplitude-limiting smoothing filtering method to obtain an updated second rotation matrix. The iterative amplitude-limiting smoothing filtering method specifically includes:

• • S102111: letting an initialization matrix equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}_t⁰={tilde over (q)}_t^k; and
  • S102112: calculating the updated second rotation matrix by employing a spherical (Slerp) difference method as for the K-th iteration, wherein a calculation formula is: {tilde over (q)}_t^k=slerp({tilde over (q)}_t−δt^k-1,{tilde over (q)}_t+δt^k-1, 0.5), where δt is a sampling time interval of a gyroscope, and K is a natural number larger than or equal to 1.

The calculating the third rotation matrix (which is a smoothing rotation matrix generated by calculating the first rotation matrix of the camera) of the camera by limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value specifically includes:

• • S10221: limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value to be δΘ;
  • S10222: calculating a smoothing amplitude value of the second rotation matrix to the first rotation matrix, wherein a calculation formula is: v=Log({tilde over (q)}_t^k⊗q_t*), where * represents conjugation; and
  • S10223: when |v|≤δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}_t equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}_t^k, and when |s|>δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix as follows: {tilde over (q)}_t=Exp(δΘ/|v|)⊗q_t, where ⊗ represents vector rotation of a quaternion space, Log is a quaternion log operator, and Exp is a quaternion exponential operator.
  • S103. Conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix;
  • The conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating the fourth rotation matrix specifically includes:
  • S1031: assuming V to be an original center viewpoint of the current video frame, and conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix to obtain a center viewpoint of a smoothed video frame as {tilde over (V)}_t={tilde over (q)}_t·V; and
  • S1032: calculating the fourth rotation matrix according to the position of the center viewpoint of the smoothed video frame and a threshold of a pitch direction of a view angle of the camera.

The fourth rotation matrix is a motion matrix obtained after conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix.

The threshold of the pitch direction of the view angle of the camera is set as Θ, and calculation of the fourth rotation matrix is specifically as follows:

• • if a center viewpoint value of the camera is in the range of the threshold Θ, the fourth rotation matrix is R_t=[{tilde over (V)}_t,l,u]^t, where l=normize(u×{tilde over (V)}_t) and u=normize({tilde over (V)}_t×l);
  • if a center viewpoint direction of the camera is larger than the threshold Θ, a direction of one side of the current video frame keeps invariable, and the side may be an upper side, a lower side, a left side or a right side; and then the fourth rotation matrix R_t is calculated; specifically, if the direction of the left side of the current video frame keeps invariable, the fourth rotation matrix is as follows: R_t=[V_t,l_t,u]^T, where l_t=normize(u_t×{tilde over (V)}_t), u_t=normize({tilde over (V)}_t×l_t−1), l_t−1=R^T_:,2 and R^T_:,2 are a second column of vectors of R^T.
  • S104. Conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding an anti-shake video.

The conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding the anti-shake video specifically includes:

• • conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the first rotation matrix and the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding the anti-shake video, through which a cropping view angle may be reduced to the maximum while smoothing is conducted.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the anti-shake effect for camera lens adaptive smoothing is achieved by obtaining an attitude matrix obtained through the gyroscope information of the camera, calculating the smoothing rotation matrix of the camera through smoothing and rotating the video. By using the embodiment of the present disclosure, a video photographed by an original camera keeps invariable while the view angle of the lens is smoothed, and the view angle of the lens may be automatically adjusted, so that a horizon direction keeps invariable when the lens conducts forward photographing; when photographing is conducted in a view angle of the sky or the ground, an orientation of one side (such as the left side) of an image keeps invariable; and the cropping view angle may be reduced to the maximum while smoothing is conducted.

Embodiment 2

Embodiment 2 of the present disclosure provides a computer readable storage medium. Computer programs are stored in the computer readable storage medium. When the computer programs are executed by a processor, the steps of the camera lens smoothing method according to Embodiment 1 of the present disclosure are implemented. The computer readable storage medium may be a non-transitory computer readable medium.

Embodiment 3

FIG. 2 shows a specific block diagram of a structure of a portable terminal according to Embodiment 3 of the present disclosure. The portable terminal 100 includes: one or more processors 101, a memory 102 and one or more computer programs. The processors 101 and the memory 102 are connected through a bus; the one or more computer programs are stored in the memory 102 and configured to be executed by the one or more processors 101; and when the processor 101 executes the computer programs, the steps of the camera lens smoothing method according to Embodiment 1 of the present disclosure are implemented.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that all or a part of the steps of implementing the embodiments described above in the method may be accomplished by programs instructing related hardware. The programs may be stored in one computer readable storage medium, and the storage medium may be a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk or the like.

The foregoing is only preferred embodiments of the present disclosure and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure are intended to be embraced by the protection range of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A camera lens smoothing method, comprising the steps of: obtaining a current video frame of a camera video and gyroscope information of the current video frame, and calculating a first rotation matrix of a current pose of the camera;conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix;conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix;conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding an anti-shake video;wherein the conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix specifically comprises:conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain a second rotation matrix; andcalculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting smoothing maximum amplitude value;wherein a method of conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix specifically comprises: conducting first smoothing on a quaternion of the first rotation matrix with constrained least squares by employing N+1 windows, and calculating the second rotation matrix.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method of conducting first smoothing employs a formula:

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the calculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value specifically comprises: limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value to be δΘ;calculating a smoothing amplitude value of the second rotation matrix to the first rotation matrix, wherein a calculation formula is: v=Log({tilde over (q)}tk⊕qt*), where * represents conjugation;when |v|≤δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix {acute over (q)}t equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}tk, and when |v|>δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix as follows:

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein after conducting the first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix, second smoothing may further be conducted on the second rotation matrix by employing an iterative amplitude-limiting smoothing filtering method to obtain an updated second rotation matrix, specifically: letting an initialization matrix equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}t0={tilde over (q)}tk; andcalculating the updated second rotation matrix by employing a spherical (Slerp) difference method as for the K-th iteration, wherein a calculation formula is: {tilde over (q)}tk=slerp({tilde over (q)}t−δtk-1,{tilde over (q)}t+δtk-1, 0.5), where δt is a sampling time interval of a gyroscope.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix specifically comprises: assuming V to be an original center viewpoint of the current video frame, and conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix to obtain a center viewpoint of a smoothed video frame as {tilde over (V)}t={tilde over (q)}t·V;calculating the fourth rotation matrix according to the position of the center viewpoint of the smoothed video frame and a threshold of a pitch direction of a view angle of camera; whereinthe fourth rotation matrix is a motion matrix obtained after conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein calculation of the fourth rotation matrix is specifically as follows: the threshold of the pitch direction of the view angle of the camera is set as Θ;if a center viewpoint value of the camera is in the range of the threshold Θ, the fourth rotation matrix is Rt=[{tilde over (V)}t,l,u]T, where l=normize(u×{tilde over (V)}t), and u=normize({tilde over (V)}t×1);if a center viewpoint direction of the camera is larger than the threshold Θ, a direction of one side of the current video frame keeps invariable, and the side may be an upper side, a lower side, a left side or a right side; and then the fourth rotation matrix Rt is calculated, specifically: if the direction of the left side of the current video frame keeps invariable, the fourth rotation matrix is as follows: Rt=[{tilde over (V)}t, lt, u]T, where lt=normize(=normize(ut×{tilde over (V)}t), ut=normize({tilde over (V)}t×lt−1), lt−1=RT:,2 and RT:,2 are a second column of vectors of RT.

7. A computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer readable storage medium stores a computer program; when the computer program is executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform: obtaining a current video frame of a camera video and gyroscope information of the current video frame, and calculating a first rotation matrix of a current pose of the camera;conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix;conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix;conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding an anti-shake video;wherein the conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix specifically comprises:conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain a second rotation matrix; andcalculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting smoothing maximum amplitude value;wherein a method of conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix specifically comprises: conducting first smoothing on a quaternion of the first rotation matrix with constrained least squares by employing N+1 windows, and calculating the second rotation matrix.

8. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the method of conducting first smoothing employs a formula:

9. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 8, wherein the calculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value specifically comprises: limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value to be δΘ;calculating a smoothing amplitude value of the second rotation matrix to the first rotation matrix, wherein a calculation formula is: v=Log({tilde over (q)}tk⊗qt*), where * represents conjugation;when |v|≤δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}t equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}tk, and when |v|>δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix as follows:

10. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 8, wherein after conducting the first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix, second smoothing may further be conducted on the second rotation matrix by employing an iterative amplitude-limiting smoothing filtering method to obtain an updated second rotation matrix, specifically: letting an initialization matrix equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}t0={tilde over (q)}tk; andcalculating the updated second rotation matrix by employing a spherical (Slerp) difference method as for the K-th iteration, wherein a calculation formula is: {tilde over (q)}tk=slerp({tilde over (q)}t−δtk-1,{tilde over (q)}t+δtk-1,0.5), where δt is a sampling time interval of a gyroscope.

11. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix specifically comprises: assuming V to be an original center viewpoint of the current video frame, and conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix to obtain a center viewpoint of a smoothed video frame as {tilde over (V)}t={tilde over (q)}t·V;calculating the fourth rotation matrix according to the position of the center viewpoint of the smoothed video frame and a threshold of a pitch direction of a view angle of camera; whereinthe fourth rotation matrix is a motion matrix obtained after conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix.

12. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein calculation of the fourth rotation matrix is specifically as follows: the threshold of the pitch direction of the view angle of the camera is set as Θ;if a center viewpoint value of the camera is in the range of the threshold Θ, the fourth rotation matrix is Rt=[{tilde over (V)}t, l, u]T, where l=normize(u×{tilde over (V)}t) and u=normize({tilde over (V)}t×l);if a center viewpoint direction of the camera is larger than the threshold Θ, a direction of one side of the current video frame keeps invariable, and the side may be an upper side, a lower side, a left side or a right side; and then the fourth rotation matrix Rt is calculated, specifically: if the direction of the left side of the current video frame keeps invariable, the fourth rotation matrix is as follows: Rt=[{tilde over (V)}t,lt,u]T, where lt=normize(ut×{tilde over (V)}t), ut=normize({tilde over (V)}t×lt−1), lt−1=RT:,2 and RT:,2 are a second column of vectors of RT.

13. A portable terminal, comprising: one or more processors;a memory; andone or more computer programs, stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, when the processor executes the computer program, the processor perform:obtaining a current video frame of a camera video and gyroscope information of the current video frame, and calculating a first rotation matrix of a current pose of the camera;conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix;conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix;conducting 3D rotation on the current video frame according to the fourth rotation matrix, and rebuilding an anti-shake video;wherein the conducting smoothing on the first rotation matrix, and calculating a third rotation matrix specifically comprises:conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain a second rotation matrix; andcalculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting smoothing maximum amplitude value;wherein a method of conducting first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix specifically comprises: conducting first smoothing on a quaternion of the first rotation matrix with constrained least squares by employing N+1 windows, and calculating the second rotation matrix.

14. The portable terminal according to claim 13, wherein the method of conducting first smoothing employs a formula:

15. The portable terminal according to claim 14, wherein the calculating the third rotation matrix of the camera by limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value specifically comprises: limiting the smoothing maximum amplitude value to be δΘ;calculating a smoothing amplitude value of the second rotation matrix to the first rotation matrix, wherein a calculation formula is: v=Log({tilde over (q)}tk⊗qt*), where * represents conjugation;when |v|≤δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}t equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}tk, and when |v|>δΘ, letting the third rotation matrix as follows:

16. The portable terminal according to claim 14, wherein after conducting the first smoothing on the first rotation matrix to obtain the second rotation matrix, second smoothing may further be conducted on the second rotation matrix by employing an iterative amplitude-limiting smoothing filtering method to obtain an updated second rotation matrix, specifically: letting an initialization matrix equal to the second rotation matrix {tilde over (q)}t0={tilde over (q)}tk; and calculating the updated second rotation matrix by employing a spherical (Slerp) difference method as for the K-th iteration, wherein a calculation formula is: {tilde over (q)}tk=slerp({tilde over (q)}t−δtk-1, qt+δtk-1,0.5), where δt is a sampling time interval of a gyroscope.

17. The portable terminal according to claim 13, wherein the conducting viewpoint decomposition on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix, and calculating a fourth rotation matrix specifically comprises: assuming V to be an original center viewpoint of the current video frame, and conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix to obtain a center viewpoint of a smoothed video frame as {tilde over (V)}t={tilde over (q)}t·V;calculating the fourth rotation matrix according to the position of the center viewpoint of the smoothed video frame and a threshold of a pitch direction of a view angle of camera; whereinthe fourth rotation matrix is a motion matrix obtained after conducting smoothing rotation on the current video frame according to the third rotation matrix.