Figure 5

Optimal tiles placement using a minimum spanning tree (MST). Weighted undirected graph of tiles whose edges represent displacements. Weights are computed as the inverse of displacements reliability measures, yielding + ∞ for the unreliable ones. These prevents the tree connecting stitchable tiles (marked as blue squares) from passing through the nontistchable ones (marked as yellow circles). If different reliability measures are available along the three directions, as in the case of using MIP-NCC to compute misalignments, three minimum spanning trees are obtained for each direction separately. The marked tile in the figure is a nonstitchable tile which is excluded from any MST path traversing stitchable tiles.