A Review Over Panoramic Image Stitching Techniques

Abstract

Abstract Using digital images at present are increased rapidly in many fields such as in solving big problems, with the extraordinary appearance of them in all areas of life, in medicine, agriculture, industry, the Internet, and others, where their use is extensive and is considered a source of information for technological progress. One of the important use is stitching the images, also called mosaic images. The stitching images means a grouping of images for the same sense with the overlapping areas to be a panoramic image of high resolution and wide width. With the modification and development of the algorithms used in this field in recent years, it has become one of the essential branches of image processing. There are many applications of stitching, used in maps and satellites, knowledge and positioning, etc. So this summary article will provide a set of image stitching techniques and investigate its use in terms of advantages, disadvantages, and accuracy for each one of them with comparative studies of several research papers in this field for the period of years (2017 – 2020). Therefore, this article may be useful for researchers working in this field to benefit and develop stitching algorithms in terms of discovering features and matching them to create a useful, problem-free, and high-resolution panoramic image.