Hello!
I am investigating the detailed stitching pipeline (as presented here). Two particular steps grabbed my attention: seam finding and blending. I have following concerns:
- If we know when seams are why we need a blending? We could stitch images according to the seams and I do not see any need for blending in this case.
- If we perform blending, why do we need to know where seams are? We could stitch images by blending overlapping regions of the images and I do not see any need for seam estimation in this case.
I think my understanding of the stitching process is wrong. Could you please explain where I made a mistake and how seam finding and blending works together?