Synonyms
Related Concepts
Definition
Image stitching is the process of combining multiple overlapping images to generate a new image with a larger field of view than the originals.
Background
Image stitching can enhance the capabilities of an ordinary camera, enabling the capture of larger field-of-view, higher-resolution images. A popular example is the construction of panorama images by seamlessly combining several images of a scene taken from the same point (This process is known as panoramic stitching, which refers to the special case of image stitching for rotational motion). By capturing images with variable exposure settings, it can also be used to generate images with a higher dynamic range than the originals.
Panoramic stitching. Images are first geometrically aligned (using a rotational motion model in this case). Photometric alignment is used to compensate for brightness variations between the...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Slama CC (ed) (1980) Manual of photogrammetry, 4th edn. American Society of Photogrammetry, Falls Church, Virginia
Szeliski R, Shum H (1997) Creating full view panoramic image mosaics and environment maps. Comput Graph (SIGGRAPH’97) 31(Annual Conference Series):251–258
Brown M, Lowe D (2007) Automatic panoramic image stitching using invariant features. Int J Comput Vis 74(1):59–73
Chen S (1995) QuickTime VR – an image-based approach to virtual environment navigation. In: ACM transactions on graphics (SIGGRAPH’95), vol 29, pp 29–38
Agarwala A, Dontcheva M, Agarwala M, Drucker S, Colburn A, Curless B, Salesin D, Cohen M (2004) Interactive digital photomontage. In: ACM transactions on graphics (SIGGRAPH’04)
Eden A, Uyttendaele M, Szeliski R (2006) Seamless image stitching of scenes with large motions and exposure differences. In: IEEE computer society conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR’06)
Triggs W, McLauchlan P, Hartley R, Fitzgibbon A (1999) Bundle adjustment: a modern synthesis. In: Vision algorithms: theory and practice, number 1883 in LNCS. Springer, Corfu, September 1999, pp 298–373
Szeliski R (2010) Computer vision: algorithms and applications, Chapter 9. Springer, http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/book/978-1-84882-934-3
Fischler M, Bolles R (1981) Random sample consensus: a paradigm for model fitting with application to image analysis and automated cartography. Commun ACM 24: 381–395
Irani M, Anandan P (1999) About direct methods. In: Triggs B, Zisserman A, Szeliski R (eds) Vision algorithms: theory and practice, number 1883 in LNCS. Springer, Corfu, September 1999, pp 267–277
Zelnik-Manor L, Peters G, Perona P (2005) Squaring the circle in panoramas. In: Tenth IEEE international conference on computer vision (ICCV’05), Beijing, pp 1292–1299
Davis J (1998) Mosaics of scenes with moving objects. In: IEEE computer society conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR’98), pp 354–360
Burt P, Adelson E (1983) A multiresolution spline with application to image mosaics. ACM Trans Graph 2(4): 217–236
Kopf J, Uyttendaele M, Deussen O, Cohen M (2007) Capturing and viewing gigapixel images. In: ACM transactions on graphics (SIGGRAPH’07), vol 26
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this entry
Cite this entry
Brown, M. (2014). Image Stitching. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-30771-8
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-31439-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering