Optimal algorithm of panoramic sewing of images in the presence of inaccuracies of mutual positioning

An optimal algorithm of panoramic sewing of images in the presence of alignment errors has been synthesized on the basis of the criterion of a posteriori probability maximum. It was shown that in case of stationary images and equal a priori probabilities of image shifts, the shift estimate is determined by a maximum of the cross-correlation function of a pair of overlapping images. The sewing algorithm proposed was illustrated by the sewing of real images.