A survey on image mosaicing techniques

•We perform a comprehensive survey of the existing image mosaicing algorithms.•We classify the state-of-the-art mosaicing techniques into major groups.•We present a comparative overview of the different mosaicing categories.

Image mosaicing, the process of obtaining a wider field-of-view of a scene from a sequence of partial views, has been an attractive research area because of its wide range of applications, including motion detection, resolution enhancement, monitoring global land usage, and medical imaging. A number of image mosaicing algorithms have been proposed over the last two decades. This paper provides an in-depth survey of the existing image mosaicing algorithms by classifying them into several groups. For each group, the fundamental concepts are first explained and then the modifications made to the basic concepts by different researchers are explained. Furthermore, this paper also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of all the mosaicing groups.