Automatic Image Stitching Using SURF and RANSAC Based Homography Estimation

This study presents a fully automatic method for image stitching on two-dimensional uncontrolled images. It provides a solution to the field-of-view limitation, which is especially needed in areas such as stereo and multi-angle camera applications, satellite and underwater mapping systems, and medical imaging. The study is based on reference points detection between the images with the SURF algorithm, image alignment with RANSAC and homography techniques, and image blending with the Poisson method. The quantitative and qualitative experiments show that the proposed method produces higher quality results than previous approaches.