Panorama Image Stitching Techniques

Images has been around for as long as almost 200 years and we have came far since then. The first photograph ever produced was in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the first digital image was produced in 1920. In short, digital imaging is a representation of characteristics of an object visually. Besides communication through languages, the information in the form of images plays a very important role in exchanging information. In the information technology field, image processing and graphics have occupied a very important place because its unique proper ties set it apart from other fields. Today, most conventional cameras despite high resolution but can only record a portion of objects of size as large as a park or a city. So, the question is how to combine all those small pictures into one large picture? The large image that fully displays the objects of that size. This is also the reason why the author chose the topic of panorama photo stitching based on matching feature as the project of his thesis. The thesis will also be covering the topic of processing, compression, storage, printing and display of the aforementioned im ages