Video stabilization algorithms could conceivably help create smoother
hyper-lapse videos. Although there has been significant recent
progress in video stabilization techniques (see Section 2),they do not
perform well on casually captured hyper-lapse videos. The dramatically
increased camera shake makes it difficult to track the motion between
successive frames. Also, since all methods operate on a
single-frame-in-single-frame-out basis, they would require dramatic
amounts of cropping. Applying the video stabilization before
decimating frames also does not work because the methods use
relatively short time windows, so the amount of smoothing is
insufficient to achieve smooth hyper-lapse results.
And later on (section 7.1):
As mentioned in our introduction, we also experimented with
traditional video stabilization techniques, applying the stabilization
both before and after the naive time-lapse frame decimation step. We
tried several available algorithms, including the Warp Stabilizer in
Adobe After Effects, Deshaker 1, and the Bundled Camera Paths method
[Liu et al. 2013]. We found that they all produced very similar
looking results and that neither variant (stabilizing before or after
decimation) worked well, as demonstrated in our supplementary
material. We also tried a more sophisticated temporal coarse-to-fine
stabilization technique that stabilized the original video, then
subsampled the frames in time by a small amount, and then repeated
this process until the desired video length was reached. While this
approach worked better than the previous two approaches (see the
video), it still did not produce as smooth a path as the new technique
developed in this paper, and significant distortion and wobble
artifacts accumulated due to the repeated application of
stabilization.
From the paper intro:
And later on (section 7.1):