Image stitching with single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks
Min Yan, Qian Yin, Ping Guo · 2016
In this paper, a novel image stitching method is proposed, which utilizes scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) feature and single-hidden layer feedforward neural network (SLFN) to get higher precision of parameter estimation. In this method, features are extracted from the image sets by the SIFT descriptor and form into the input vector of the SLFN. The output of the SLFN is those translation, rotation and scaling parameters with respect to reference and registered image sets. We also apply a fast learning scheme, called pseudoinverse learning, to train SLFN to get higher training efficiency. Comparative experiments are performed between our proposed method and the traditional random sample consensus (RANSAC) based method. The results show that our method has the advantage not only at accuracy but also remarkably at fast speed.