A system and method for deghosting mosaics provides a novel multiperspective
plane
sweep approach for generating an image mosaic from a sequence of still images,
video images, scanned photographic images, computer generated images, etc. This
multiperspective plane sweep approach uses virtual camera positions to compute
depth maps for columns of overlapping pixels in adjacent images. Object distortions
and ghosting caused by image parallax when generating the image mosaics are then
minimized by blending pixel colors, or grey values, for each computed depth to
create a common composite area for each of the overlapping images. Further, the
multiperspective plane sweep approach described herein is both computationally
efficient, and applicable to both the case of limited overlap between the images
used for creating the image mosaics, and to the case of extensive or increased
image overlap.