A variational approach for image stitching I

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1318-1344

  Wang, Wei ^a   Ng, Michael K ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Color correction; Image stitching; Mask function; Variational method

Indexed keywords

COLOR CORRECTION; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; EXISTENCE OF A SOLUTIONS; IMAGE STITCHING; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; MASK FUNCTION; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84885070342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19364954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110819871     Document Type: Article

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