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Image Blending Techniques and their Application in Underwater Mosaicing

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  1. Ricard Prados

    1. University of Girona, Girona, Spain

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  2. Rafael Garcia

    1. University of Girona, Girona, Spain

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  3. László Neumann

    1. University of Girona, Girona, Spain

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  • Proposes strategies and solutions to tackle the challenges of building photo-mosaics of very large underwater optical surveys
  • Presents a comprehensive review of state-of-the art mosaicing and blending techniques
  • Introduces a complete approach to large-scale underwater image mosaicing and blending
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann
    Pages 1-13

  3. Underwater 2D Mosaicing

    • Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann
    Pages 15-33

  4. State of the Art in Image Blending Techniques

    • Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann
    Pages 35-60

  5. Proposed Framework

    • Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann
    Pages 61-78

  6. Results

    • Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann
    Pages 79-104

  7. Conclusions

    • Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann
    Pages 105-107
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This work proposes strategies and solutions to tackle the problem of building photo-mosaics of very large underwater optical surveys, presenting contributions to the image preprocessing, enhancing and blending steps, and resulting in an improved visual quality of the final photo-mosaic. The text opens with a comprehensive review of mosaicing and blending techniques, before proposing an approach for large scale underwater image mosaicing and blending. In the image preprocessing step, a depth dependent illumination compensation function is used to solve the non-uniform illumination appearance due to light attenuation. For image enhancement, the image contrast variability due to different acquisition altitudes is compensated using an adaptive contrast enhancement based on an image quality reference selected through a total variation criterion. In the blending step, a graph-cut strategy operating in the image gradient domain over the overlapping regions is suggested. Next, an out-of-core blending strategy for very large scale photo-mosaics is presented and tested on real data. Finally, the performance of the approach is evaluated and compared with other approaches.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Image Blending Techniques and their Application in Underwater Mosaicing

  • Authors: Ricard Prados, Rafael Garcia, László Neumann

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05558-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05557-2Published: 17 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05558-9Published: 05 April 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5768

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5776

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 107

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Image Processing and Computer Vision

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