Automated mosaics via topology inference
Author(s): Steve Hsu, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar.
Article: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 44--54, March-April,
2002.
[BibTeX] 
Abstract:
Using panoramic environment maps and
3D object models with surface textures
derived from natural imagery greatly facilitates photorealistic
rendering. Taking a single snapshot spanning
the whole scene of interest sounds
easy, but an off-the-shelf camera
might not have enough resolution to
adequately capture the whole scene
at once. Because of recent advances
in automated video and image processing
and the availability of powerful
commodity computational
platforms, even nonexpert users can
now create image mosaics and
panoramas by seamlessly stitching
multiple image and video frames
captured using handheld cameras.