{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4386255248","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177488","title":"Content-Seam-Preserving Multi-Alignment Network for Visual-Sensor-Based Image Stitching","display_name":"Content-Seam-Preserving Multi-Alignment Network for Visual-Sensor-Based Image Stitching","publication_year":2023,"publication_date":"2023-08-29","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4386255248","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177488","pmid":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37687944"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.3390/s23177488","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177488","pdf_url":"https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/7488/pdf?version=1693286736","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S101949793","display_name":"Sensors","issn_l":"1424-8220","issn":["1424-8220"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310310987","host_organization_name":"Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310310987"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Sensors","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref","doaj","pubmed"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/7488/pdf?version=1693286736","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5056289357","display_name":"Xiaoting Fan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5437-3625"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I15062923","display_name":"Tianjin Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/05x2td559","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Xiaoting Fan","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5101860050","display_name":"Long Sun","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-7556"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I162868743","display_name":"Tianjin University","ror":"https://ror.org/012tb2g32","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I162868743"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Long Sun","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I162868743"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5102012571","display_name":"Zhong Zhang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-6173"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I15062923","display_name":"Tianjin Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/05x2td559","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zhong Zhang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-6173","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100319096","display_name":"Shuang Liu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-7209"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I15062923","display_name":"Tianjin Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/05x2td559","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Shuang Liu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-7209","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications and Power Transmission, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5010254431","display_name":"T.S. Durrani","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-6118"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I181647926","display_name":"University of Strathclyde","ror":"https://ror.org/00n3w3b69","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I181647926"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Tariq S. Durrani","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I181647926"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":3,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5100319096"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I15062923"],"apc_list":{"value":2400,"currency":"CHF","value_usd":2598},"apc_paid":{"value":2400,"currency":"CHF","value_usd":2598},"fwci":0.3191,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":3,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.56800409,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":94,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":"23","issue":"17","first_page":"7488","last_page":"7488"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10531","display_name":"Advanced Vision and Imaging","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10531","display_name":"Advanced Vision and Imaging","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10627","display_name":"Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11019","display_name":"Image Enhancement Techniques","score":0.9961000084877014,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image-stitching","display_name":"Image stitching","score":0.9798691272735596},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.8043341636657715},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-vision","display_name":"Computer vision","score":0.7890926599502563},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image-warping","display_name":"Image warping","score":0.7749952673912048},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/homography","display_name":"Homography","score":0.7411552667617798},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.6993847489356995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/enhanced-data-rates-for-gsm-evolution","display_name":"Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution","score":0.47808241844177246},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/consistency","display_name":"Consistency (knowledge bases)","score":0.46802622079849243},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematics","display_name":"Mathematics","score":0.13148754835128784}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C29081049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1364242","display_name":"Image stitching","level":2,"score":0.9798691272735596},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.8043341636657715},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31972630","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q844240","display_name":"Computer vision","level":1,"score":0.7890926599502563},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C157202957","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1659609","display_name":"Image warping","level":2,"score":0.7749952673912048},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C28751775","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2112539","display_name":"Homography","level":4,"score":0.7411552667617798},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6993847489356995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162307627","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204833","display_name":"Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution","level":2,"score":0.47808241844177246},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776436953","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5163215","display_name":"Consistency (knowledge bases)","level":2,"score":0.46802622079849243},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.13148754835128784},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C177846678","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1501864","display_name":"Projective test","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105795698","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12483","display_name":"Statistics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C75280867","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q877775","display_name":"Projective space","level":3,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":6,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.3390/s23177488","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177488","pdf_url":"https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/7488/pdf?version=1693286736","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S101949793","display_name":"Sensors","issn_l":"1424-8220","issn":["1424-8220"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310310987","host_organization_name":"Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310310987"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Sensors","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmid:37687944","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37687944","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306525036","display_name":"PubMed","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)","raw_type":null},{"id":"pmh:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10490656","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/10490656","pdf_url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10490656/pdf/sensors-23-07488.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764455111","display_name":"PubMed Central","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Sensors (Basel)","raw_type":"Text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:strathprints.strath.ac.uk:86718","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/view/author/20540.html>","pdf_url":"https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/86718/1/Fan_etal_Sensors_2023_Content_seam_preserving_multi_alignment_network.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402226","display_name":"Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I181647926","host_organization_name":"University of Strathclyde","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I181647926"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:doaj.org/article:e83e2de709fc46f687136914f71bb372","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doaj.org/article/e83e2de709fc46f687136914f71bb372","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401280","display_name":"DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by-sa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-sa","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Sensors, Vol 23, Iss 17, p 7488 (2023)","raw_type":"article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:mdpi.com:/1424-8220/23/17/7488/","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23177488","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400947","display_name":"MDPI (MDPI AG)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210097602","host_organization_name":"Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland)","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210097602"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Sensors","raw_type":"Text"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.3390/s23177488","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/s23177488","pdf_url":"https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/7488/pdf?version=1693286736","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S101949793","display_name":"Sensors","issn_l":"1424-8220","issn":["1424-8220"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310310987","host_organization_name":"Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310310987"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Sensors","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.6700000166893005,"display_name":"Life below water","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/14"}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4386255248.pdf"},"referenced_works_count":46,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1963246386","https://openalex.org/W1982343761","https://openalex.org/W1985320612","https://openalex.org/W2010339833","https://openalex.org/W2059729733","https://openalex.org/W2126060993","https://openalex.org/W2133665775","https://openalex.org/W2161907179","https://openalex.org/W2518764509","https://openalex.org/W2520293138","https://openalex.org/W2594098573","https://openalex.org/W2728409346","https://openalex.org/W2770525750","https://openalex.org/W2786533959","https://openalex.org/W2913949024","https://openalex.org/W2921909820","https://openalex.org/W2963346260","https://openalex.org/W2999589591","https://openalex.org/W3022884247","https://openalex.org/W3035477606","https://openalex.org/W3094761124","https://openalex.org/W3095840465","https://openalex.org/W3097941873","https://openalex.org/W3105304426","https://openalex.org/W3126730469","https://openalex.org/W3144819047","https://openalex.org/W3147619802","https://openalex.org/W3153296269","https://openalex.org/W3160695480","https://openalex.org/W3175249881","https://openalex.org/W3175551454","https://openalex.org/W3204526765","https://openalex.org/W3212944556","https://openalex.org/W3214403471","https://openalex.org/W4200235160","https://openalex.org/W4221034957","https://openalex.org/W4224130636","https://openalex.org/W4225999354","https://openalex.org/W4243684731","https://openalex.org/W4249418251","https://openalex.org/W4288064716","https://openalex.org/W4296231297","https://openalex.org/W4297537455","https://openalex.org/W4327969686","https://openalex.org/W4327973762","https://openalex.org/W4385246047"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2890988828","https://openalex.org/W1970924103","https://openalex.org/W2003909330","https://openalex.org/W4308948894","https://openalex.org/W4225711786","https://openalex.org/W4220725062","https://openalex.org/W2182457744","https://openalex.org/W1997620551","https://openalex.org/W4386043393","https://openalex.org/W2893744478"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"As":[0],"an":[1,105],"important":[2],"representation":[3],"of":[4,148,166],"scenes":[5],"in":[6,128],"virtual":[7],"reality":[8],"and":[9,80,99,154,185],"augmented":[10],"reality,":[11],"image":[12,19,40,50,71,77,97,115,135,152,167],"stitching":[13,25,41,180],"aims":[14],"to":[15,48,93,111,123,130,143,161],"generate":[16],"a":[17,21,44,64,86,137,155],"panoramic":[18],"with":[20],"natural":[22],"field-of-view":[23],"by":[24,32],"multiple":[26],"images":[27,184],"together,":[28],"which":[29,52,73],"are":[30],"captured":[31],"different":[33],"visual":[34],"sensors.":[35],"Existing":[36],"deep-learning-based":[37],"methods":[38],"for":[39,69,182],"only":[42],"conduct":[43],"single":[45],"deep":[46,88],"homography":[47,89],"perform":[49],"alignment,":[51],"may":[53],"produce":[54],"inevitable":[55],"alignment":[56],"distortions.":[57],"To":[58],"address":[59],"this":[60],"issue,":[61],"we":[62],"propose":[63],"content-seam-preserving":[65],"multi-alignment":[66],"network":[67],"(CSPM-Net)":[68],"visual-sensor-based":[70,183],"stitching,":[72],"could":[74],"preserve":[75,144],"the":[76,95,101,114,118,132,145,163,173],"content":[78,102,138],"consistency":[79,139],"avoid":[81],"seam":[82,125,156],"distortions":[83,165],"simultaneously.":[84],"Firstly,":[85],"content-preserving":[87],"estimation":[90],"was":[91,109,141],"designed":[92,142],"pre-align":[94],"input":[96],"pairs":[98],"reduce":[100],"inconsistency.":[103],"Secondly,":[104],"edge-assisted":[106],"mesh":[107],"warping":[108],"conducted":[110],"further":[112],"align":[113],"pairs,":[116,153],"where":[117],"edge":[119,164],"information":[120],"is":[121,159],"introduced":[122],"eliminate":[124,162],"artifacts.":[126],"Finally,":[127],"order":[129],"predict":[131],"final":[133],"stitched":[134],"accurately,":[136],"loss":[140,158],"geometric":[146],"structure":[147],"overlapping":[149],"regions":[150],"between":[151],"smoothness":[157],"proposed":[160,174],"boundaries.":[168],"Experimental":[169],"results":[170,181],"demonstrated":[171],"that":[172],"image-stitching":[175],"method":[176],"can":[177],"provide":[178],"favorable":[179],"outperform":[186],"other":[187],"state-of-the-art":[188],"methods.":[189]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-05-21T06:26:12.895304","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}