UAV Remote Sensing Image Stitching

The majority of image stitching (include UAV remote sensing images stitching) models are homography matrix transformation function, which could effectively simulate the rigid transformation of 2D images in 3D coordinate system. In order to prevent the accumulation of alignment errors (drift) and the projection distortion in the multi-image stitching task, we proposes a novel UAV remote sensing image stitching access consisting of homography transformation and Helmert transformation. In the overlapping and non-overlapping region we utility homography transformation and Helmert transformation respectively. With proposed method the UAV remote sensing image stitching result has fewer alignment errors and less projection distortion.

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