Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21396v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:36:08 GMT
• Title: Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
• Authors: Zhiying Jiang, Ruhao Yan, Zengxi Zhang, Bowei Zhang, Jinyuan Liu,
• Abstract summary: Image stitching synthesizes images captured from multiple perspectives into a single image with a broader field of view.<n>The significant variations in object depth often lead to large parallax, resulting in ghosting and misalignment in the stitched results.<n>To address this, we propose a depth-consistency-constrained seamless-free image stitching method.
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• Abstract: Image stitching synthesizes images captured from multiple perspectives into a single image with a broader field of view. The significant variations in object depth often lead to large parallax, resulting in ghosting and misalignment in the stitched results. To address this, we propose a depth-consistency-constrained seamless-free image stitching method. First, to tackle the multi-view alignment difficulties caused by parallax, a multi-stage mechanism combined with global depth regularization constraints is developed to enhance the alignment accuracy of the same apparent target across different depth ranges. Second, during the multi-view image fusion process, an optimal stitching seam is determined through graph-based low-cost computation, and a soft-seam region is diffused to precisely locate transition areas, thereby effectively mitigating alignment errors induced by parallax and achieving natural and seamless stitching results. Furthermore, considering the computational overhead in the shift regression process, a reparameterization strategy is incorporated to optimize the structural design, significantly improving algorithm efficiency while maintaining optimal performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method against the existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/DLUT-YRH/DSFN.

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