Underwater video mosaicing using topology and superpixel-based pairwise stitching

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Highlights：

• Image mosaics help coral-reef ecologists survey the health of coral reefs.

• Our algorithm creates mosaics from underater videos acquired by hand-held cameras.

• A new mosaicing method that stitches images in an as-rigid-as-possible manner.

• Our method addresses image distortions caused by parallax and by wave motion.

摘要

•Image mosaics help coral-reef ecologists survey the health of coral reefs.•Our algorithm creates mosaics from underater videos acquired by hand-held cameras.•A new mosaicing method that stitches images in an as-rigid-as-possible manner.•Our method addresses image distortions caused by parallax and by wave motion.

论文关键词：Coral reefs,Benthic surveys,Image-mosaicing algorithm

论文评审过程：Received 24 May 2018, Revised 13 September 2018, Accepted 19 October 2018, Available online 26 October 2018, Version of Record 3 November 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.10.041