Real-Time Video Stabilization Algorithm Based on SuperPoint

With numerous applications in the field of intelligent unmanned systems for flight patrol, airborne cameras have become crucial tools for measuring and tracking targets. However, the video captured by these cameras is susceptible to external disturbances and jitter, and traditional stabilizers often fail to accurately extract image feature points. Although deep learning approaches can stabilize videos, they are constrained by limited datasets and weak model controllability, making it challenging to achieve real-time performance. We introduce a SuperPoint stabilization framework based on deep learning feature point detection. By combining traditional and deep learning methods, our approach aims to construct a controllable and real-time video stabilizer. First, we extract image feature points using SuperPoint neural network, which is better than traditional manual feature point detector. Second, the extracted image feature points are homogenized. Third, we adopt the pyramid Lucas–Kanade (LK) to improve feature points matching speed and the accuracy for motion estimation. Finally, we define the moving average filter and the Kalman filter, respectively, and combine them to smooth unstable camera trajectories and then output stable video sequences after motion compensation. Experimental results show that our proposed method produces competitive results with current representative methods, and more importantly, it only takes an average of 32 ms to stabilize a frame, which is faster than others.