Stitching algorithms for biological specimen images

Authors:
Sanjiv K. Bhatia;Ashok Samal;Vishal Seri;Scott Gardner
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Missouri – St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.;School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Venue:
International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics
Year:
2011

Citing 19
Cited 0

Registration of Translated and Rotated Images Using Finite Fourier Transforms

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A survey of image registration techniques

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Bagging predictors

Machine Learning
Evaluation of Interest Point Detectors

International Journal of Computer Vision - Special issue on a special section on visual surveillance
Moment Forms Invariant to Rotation and Blur in Arbitrary Number of Dimensions

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Hierarchical Model-Based Motion Estimation

ECCV '92 Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Computer Vision
Non-parametric Local Transforms for Computing Visual Correspondence

ECCV '94 Proceedings of the Third European Conference-Volume II on Computer Vision - Volume II
Euclidean Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Views

Proceedings of the Second Joint European - US Workshop on Applications of Invariance in Computer Vision
Using geometric corners to build a 2D mosaic from a set of image

CVPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '97)
Automatic Mosaicing with Super-Resolution Zoom

CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recognising Panoramas

ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework

International Journal of Computer Vision
Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints

International Journal of Computer Vision
A fast and robust image registration method based on an early consensus paradigm

Pattern Recognition Letters
Multi-Image Matching Using Multi-Scale Oriented Patches

CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 1 - Volume 01
A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Content Based Pattern Analysis System for a Biological Specimen Collection

ICDMW '07 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops
An FFT-based technique for translation, rotation, and scale-invariant image registration

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Projection-based image registration in the presence of fixed-pattern noise

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of combining multiple overlapping image sections of biological specimens to obtain a single image containing the entire specimen. This is useful in the digitisation of a large number of biological specimens stored in museum collections and laboratories. In the case of many large specimens, it means that the specimen must be captured in overlapping sections instead of a single image. In this research, we have compared the performance of several known algorithms for this problem. In addition, we have developed several new algorithms based on matching the geometry (width, slope, and curvature) of the specimens at the boundaries. Finally, we compare the performance of a bagging approach that combines the results from multiple stitching algorithms. Our detailed evaluation shows that brightness-based and curvature-based approaches produce the best matches for the images in this domain.