Chapter 6. Creating a Panoramic Image

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to stitch multiple images of the same scene together to create a panoramic image.

By the end of this chapter, you will know:

  • How to match keypoint descriptors between multiple images
  • How to find overlapping regions between images
  • How to warp images based on the matching keypoints
  • How to stitch multiple images to create a panoramic image

Matching keypoint descriptors

In the last chapter, we learned how to extract keypoints using various methods. The reason that we extract keypoints is because we can use them for image matching. Let's consider the following image:

Matching keypoint descriptors

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