Stitching multiple images together to create beautiful highresolution panoramas is one of the most popular consumer applications of image registration and blending. In this chapter, I review the motion models (geometric transformations) that underlie panoramic image stitching, discuss direct intensity-based and feature-based registration algorithms, and present global and local alignment techni...

Image stitching is a method that forms a bigger image out of two or more smaller images with a certain overlap in their field-of-view. Usage of this technique is present in photography, medical imaging and other fields as well. The potential for using image stitching for measurement purposes in industrial applications has not been investigated as thoroughly, but it is receiving more attention. ...

This paper presents a fast and extremely robust feature-based method for planar registration of partly overlapping images that uses a twostage robust tting approach comprising a fast estimation of a transformation hypothesis (that we show is highly likely to be correct) followed by a con rmation and re nement stage. The method is particularly suited for automatic stitching of oversize documents...

Panoramic images capture cityscapes of dense urban structures by mapping multiple images from different viewpoints into a single composite image. One challenge to their construction is that objects that lie at di fferent depth are often not stitched correctly in the panorama. The problem is especially troublesome for objects occupying large horizontal spans, such as telephone wires, crossing mu...

The purpose of this study is an application of scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm to stitch the cervical-thoracic-lumbar (C-T-L) spine magnetic resonance (MR) images to provide a view of the entire spine in a single image. All MR images were acquired with fast spin echo (FSE) pulse sequence using two MR scanners (1.5 T and 3.0 T). The stitching procedures for each part of spine ...

Microscopes are used in many fields such as pathology, however their limited field of view is a major restriction for diagnosis. To overcome this problem, a camera can be mounted on top of a microscope and captured images could be stitched together to provide a broader field of view. However, this process is computationally intensive and achieving real-time performance poses a major challenge. ...

This paper proposes a measurable criterion called “stitching reliability ’’ which reflects the stitching quality of panoramic mosaics. We also show that the accurate focal length from image sequences closely relates to the stitching reliability. However, current methods to recover the focal length are not very robust because mis-stitched areas in general panoramas are used in the computation of...

This tutorial reviews image alignment and image stitching algorithms. Image alignment (registration) algorithms can discover the large-scale (parametric) correspondence relationships among images with varying degrees of overlap. They are ideally suited for applications such as video stabilization, summarization, and the creation of large-scale panoramic photographs. Image stitching algorithms t...