I am trying to stitch two images. tech stack is opecv c++ on vs 2017.
The image that I had considered are:
image1 of code : 
and
image2 of code: 
I have found the homoography matrix using this code. I have considered image1 and image2 as given above.
int minHessian = 400;
Ptr<SURF> detector = SURF::create(minHessian);
vector< KeyPoint > keypoints_object, keypoints_scene;
detector->detect(gray_image1, keypoints_object);
detector->detect(gray_image2, keypoints_scene);
Mat img_keypoints;
drawKeypoints(gray_image1, keypoints_object, img_keypoints);
imshow("SURF Keypoints", img_keypoints);
Mat img_keypoints1;
drawKeypoints(gray_image2, keypoints_scene, img_keypoints1);
imshow("SURF Keypoints1", img_keypoints1);
//-- Step 2: Calculate descriptors (feature vectors)
Mat descriptors_object, descriptors_scene;
detector->compute(gray_image1, keypoints_object, descriptors_object);
detector->compute(gray_image2, keypoints_scene, descriptors_scene);
//-- Step 3: Matching descriptor vectors using FLANN matcher
Ptr<DescriptorMatcher> matcher = DescriptorMatcher::create(DescriptorMatcher::FLANNBASED);
vector< DMatch > matches;
matcher->match(descriptors_object, descriptors_scene, matches);
double max_dist = 0; double min_dist = 100;
//-- Quick calculation of max and min distances between keypoints
for (int i = 0; i < descriptors_object.rows; i++)
{
double dist = matches[i].distance;
if (dist < min_dist) min_dist = dist;
if (dist > max_dist) max_dist = dist;
}
printf("-- Max dist: %f \n", max_dist);
printf("-- Min dist: %f \n", min_dist);
//-- Use only "good" matches (i.e. whose distance is less than 3*min_dist )
vector< DMatch > good_matches;
Mat result, H;
for (int i = 0; i < descriptors_object.rows; i++)
{
if (matches[i].distance < 3 * min_dist)
{
good_matches.push_back(matches[i]);
}
}
Mat img_matches;
drawMatches(gray_image1, keypoints_object, gray_image2, keypoints_scene, good_matches, img_matches, Scalar::all(-1),
Scalar::all(-1), vector<char>(), DrawMatchesFlags::NOT_DRAW_SINGLE_POINTS);
imshow("Good Matches", img_matches);
std::vector< Point2f > obj;
std::vector< Point2f > scene;
cout << "Good Matches detected" << good_matches.size() << endl;
for (int i = 0; i < good_matches.size(); i++)
{
//-- Get the keypoints from the good matches
obj.push_back(keypoints_object[good_matches[i].queryIdx].pt);
scene.push_back(keypoints_scene[good_matches[i].trainIdx].pt);
}
// Find the Homography Matrix for img 1 and img2
H = findHomography(obj, scene, RANSAC);
The next step would be to warp these. I used perspectivetransform function to find the corner of image1 on the stitched image. I had considered this as the number of columns to be used in the Mat result.This is the code I wrote ->
vector<Point2f> imageCorners(4);
imageCorners[0] = Point(0, 0);
imageCorners[1] = Point(image1.cols, 0);
imageCorners[2] = Point(image1.cols, image1.rows);
imageCorners[3] = Point(0, image1.rows);
vector<Point2f> projectedCorners(4);
perspectiveTransform(imageCorners, projectedCorners, H);
Mat result;
warpPerspective(image1, result, H, Size(projectedCorners[2].x, image1.rows));
Mat half(result, Rect(0, 0, image2.cols, image2.rows));
image2.copyTo(half);
imshow("result", result);
I am getting a stitched output of these images. But the issue is with the size of the image. I was doing a comparison by combining the two original images manually with the result of the above code. The size of the result from code is more. What should I do to make it of perfect size? The ideal size should be image1.cols + image2.cols - overlapping length.
