Honghua Tang

Mr. Honghua Tang


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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

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23 April 2024 in Remote Sensing
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JCJun Chen
Jun Chen
YLYongxi Luo
Yongxi Luo
JWJie Wang
Jie Wang
HTHonghua Tang
Honghua Tang
YTYixian Tang
Yixian Tang
JLJianhui Li
Jianhui Li
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image stitching refers to the process of combining multiple UAV images into a single large-format, wide-field image, and the stitched image often contains large irregular boundaries and multiple stitching seams. Usually, irregular boundaries are addressed using grid-constrained methods, while seams are optimized through the design of energy functions and penalty terms applied to the pixels at the seams. The above-mentioned two solutions can only address one of the two issues individually and are often limited to pairwise stitching of images. To the best of our knowledge, there is no unified approach that can handle both seams and irregular boundaries in the context of multi-image stitching for UAV images. Considering that addressing irregular boundaries involves completing missing information for regularization and that mitigating seams involves generating images near the stitching seams, both of these challenges can be viewed as instances of a mask-based image completion problem. This paper proposes a UAV image stitching method based on a diffusion model. This method uniformly designs masks for irregular boundaries and stitching seams, and the unconditional score function of the diffusion model is then utilized to reverse the process. Additional manifold gradient constraints are applied to restore masked images, eliminating both irregular boundaries and stitching seams and resulting in higher perceptual quality. The restoration maintains high consistency in texture and semantics. This method not only simultaneously addresses irregular boundaries and stitching seams but also is unaffected by factors such as the number of stitched images, the shape of irregular boundaries, and the distribution of stitching seams, demonstrating its robustness.