Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections

This paper addresses the challenge of constructing panoramic images from a set of overlapping microscopic images of geological polished sections.This task is valuable both for automatic mineral detection and for the creating of advanced virtual educational collections. We present LumenStone P1, a ne...

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Main Authors: G. Nikolaev, D. Korshunov, A. Khvostikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2024-12-01
Series:ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-2-W1-2024/39/2024/isprs-annals-X-2-W1-2024-39-2024.pdf
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author G. Nikolaev
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description This paper addresses the challenge of constructing panoramic images from a set of overlapping microscopic images of geological polished sections.This task is valuable both for automatic mineral detection and for the creating of advanced virtual educational collections. We present LumenStone P1, a new dataset of polished section images for panorama stitching, along with an automatic method for constructing panoramas of these images. Comparisons with existing approaches, including commercial ones, demonstrate that our method is comparable in stitching quality. The numerical value of panorama stitching quality is 0.33 by RMSE for our dataset. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and its practical applicability for the preparation of series of images and further computer analysis of panoramic geological images of polished sections. The LumenStone P1 dataset intended for panorama creation, as well as the source code of the proposed method, are publicly available.
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spelling doaj-art-280585067a4d450fa04fef6c12bda2732024-12-16T22:33:09ZengCopernicus PublicationsISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences2194-90422194-90502024-12-01X-2-W1-2024394610.5194/isprs-annals-X-2-W1-2024-39-2024Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sectionsG. Nikolaev0D. Korshunov1A. Khvostikov2Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, RussiaGeological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaFaculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, RussiaThis paper addresses the challenge of constructing panoramic images from a set of overlapping microscopic images of geological polished sections.This task is valuable both for automatic mineral detection and for the creating of advanced virtual educational collections. We present LumenStone P1, a new dataset of polished section images for panorama stitching, along with an automatic method for constructing panoramas of these images. Comparisons with existing approaches, including commercial ones, demonstrate that our method is comparable in stitching quality. The numerical value of panorama stitching quality is 0.33 by RMSE for our dataset. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and its practical applicability for the preparation of series of images and further computer analysis of panoramic geological images of polished sections. The LumenStone P1 dataset intended for panorama creation, as well as the source code of the proposed method, are publicly available.https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-2-W1-2024/39/2024/isprs-annals-X-2-W1-2024-39-2024.pdf
spellingShingle G. Nikolaev
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Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
title Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
title_full Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
title_fullStr Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
title_full_unstemmed Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
title_short Automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
title_sort automatic stitching of panoramas for geological images of polished sections
url https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-2-W1-2024/39/2024/isprs-annals-X-2-W1-2024-39-2024.pdf
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