Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching

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Main Authors: Jiang, Zhiying, Yan, Ruhao, Zhang, Zengxi, Zhang, Bowei, Liu, Jinyuan
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Published: 2025
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author Jiang, Zhiying
Yan, Ruhao
Zhang, Zengxi
Zhang, Bowei
Liu, Jinyuan
author_facet Jiang, Zhiying
Yan, Ruhao
Zhang, Zengxi
Zhang, Bowei
Liu, Jinyuan
contents Image stitching synthesizes images captured from multiple perspectives into a single image with a broader field of view. The significant variations in object depth often lead to large parallax, resulting in ghosting and misalignment in the stitched results. To address this, we propose a depth-consistency-constrained seamless-free image stitching method. First, to tackle the multi-view alignment difficulties caused by parallax, a multi-stage mechanism combined with global depth regularization constraints is developed to enhance the alignment accuracy of the same apparent target across different depth ranges. Second, during the multi-view image fusion process, an optimal stitching seam is determined through graph-based low-cost computation, and a soft-seam region is diffused to precisely locate transition areas, thereby effectively mitigating alignment errors induced by parallax and achieving natural and seamless stitching results. Furthermore, considering the computational overhead in the shift regression process, a reparameterization strategy is incorporated to optimize the structural design, significantly improving algorithm efficiency while maintaining optimal performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method against the existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/DLUT-YRH/DSFN.
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spellingShingle Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
Jiang, Zhiying
Yan, Ruhao
Zhang, Zengxi
Zhang, Bowei
Liu, Jinyuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image stitching synthesizes images captured from multiple perspectives into a single image with a broader field of view. The significant variations in object depth often lead to large parallax, resulting in ghosting and misalignment in the stitched results. To address this, we propose a depth-consistency-constrained seamless-free image stitching method. First, to tackle the multi-view alignment difficulties caused by parallax, a multi-stage mechanism combined with global depth regularization constraints is developed to enhance the alignment accuracy of the same apparent target across different depth ranges. Second, during the multi-view image fusion process, an optimal stitching seam is determined through graph-based low-cost computation, and a soft-seam region is diffused to precisely locate transition areas, thereby effectively mitigating alignment errors induced by parallax and achieving natural and seamless stitching results. Furthermore, considering the computational overhead in the shift regression process, a reparameterization strategy is incorporated to optimize the structural design, significantly improving algorithm efficiency while maintaining optimal performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method against the existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/DLUT-YRH/DSFN.
title Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21396