Visually pleasant blending techniques in underwater mosaicing
Ricard Prados, László Neumann, Xavier Cufí i Solé, Rafael García · Instrumentation viewpoint · 2008
of two or more images that are then combined into a single and usually larger one. The applications of mosaicing comprehend panoramic photography, super-resolution, virtual environments and vision based navigation systems, as a most relevant exponents. Besides generic camera issues as geometric and chromatic distortions, underwa-ter images are aff ected by particular factors as non-uniform illumination, caustics, blurring, suspended particles and scattering, making even more diffi cult the alignment and blend-ing. The aim of this work is to perform a re-view on the existing image blending techniques specially focusing the study on its application on the underwater imaging.