Region-based template matching method for multi-view coastline image stitching

Coastal environment is one of the most important part in human activities environment, so coastline studying has great significance to us. Since the coastline stretches widely, shot by many cameras at the same time in different regions currently, and we need spliced it into a complete coastline for further study. However, the feature points of the beach are difficult to be extracted, we use the region-based template matching method to splice it in this paper. An efficient template matching method was proposed to solve the time-consuming classical algorithm of exhaustive search and low efficiency of template selection. Through the experiments, most of the coastline can be spliced better and faster than MAD method.