Basic monitoring of the marine environment is crucial for the early warning and assessment
of marine hydrometeorological conditions, climate change, and ecosystem disasters. In …

With its unique advantages of high flexibility and high efficiency, UAV has become a
reasonable substitute for conventional aerial measurement technology. Especially in the low …

Accurate image stitching is crucial to wind turbine blade visualization and defect analysis. It
is inevitable that drone-captured images for blade inspection are high resolution and heavily …

Image stitching is a technique that is often employed in image processing and computer
vision applications. The feature points in an image provide a significant amount of key …

Preserving geometric structures in the scene plays a vital role in image stitching. However,
most of the existing methods ignore the large-scale layouts reflected by straight lines or …

The image stitching process often produces many undesirable effects. Solving problems
such as discontinuity and dislocation of pictures has always been the focus of people's …

Welding robots are employed to improve the welding efficiency and quality of steel
structures. However, the complexity and diversity of weldments hinder the ability to detect …

The current study aimed to quantify the value of color spaces and channels as a potential
superior replacement for standard grayscale images, as well as the relative performance of …

In this letter, we propose an end-to-end stitching network, which takes two images with a
narrow field of view (FOV) as inputs, and produces a single image with a wide FOV. Our …

This study shows the results of the analysis of the photogrammetric use of 360-degree
cameras in complex heritage-related scenes. The goal is to take advantage of the large field …