Figure 3

Class diagrams of VolumeManager and Stitcher modules. A StackedVolume contains as many Stack objects as the number of stacks that compose the volume and it is responsible to model data organization. The Stitcher methods implement the stitching pipeline and the strategies to use efficiently system resources, by accessing data through the StackedVolume. These strategies use the algorithms TilesPlacementAlgo and PairwiseDisplAlgo that may depend on the specific characteristics of images. Note that TilesPlacementAlgo uses Displacement s produced by PairwiseDisplAlgo. Classes MST, MIP-NCC, and MIP-NCC-Displacement implement the actual algorithms used in our implementation.