SEAMLESS IMAGE MOSAICKING VIA SYNCHRONIZATION

E. Santellani, E. Maset, A. Fusiello
2018 ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences  
This paper proposes an innovative method to create high-quality seamless planar mosaics. The developed pipeline ensures good robustness against many common mosaicking problems (e.g., misalignments, colour distortion, moving objects, parallax) and differs from other works in the literature because a global approach, known as <i>synchronization</i>, is used for image registration and colour correction. To better conceal the mosaic seamlines, images are cut along specific paths, computed using a
more » ... ronoi decomposition of the mosaic area and a shortest path algorithm. Results obtained on challenging real datasets show that the colour correction mitigates significantly the colour variations between the original images and the seams on the final mosaic are not evident.
doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-iv-2-247-2018 fatcat:lfdwbb5qf5ea7f4potozxrrnau