中文摘要
本論文提出一個虛擬全景拼接技術(virtual mosaic)用於地標辨識。虛擬全景拼接透過結合多張影像的資訊來表示一個地標。在訓練階段，我們儲存每個特徵點的特徵描述(descriptor)，並用鄰接矩陣(adjacency matrix)來代表特徵點之間的空間關係。在測試階段，由於地標通常是拍攝自不同視角，所以在測試前我們將測試圖片經過適當的校正。實驗結果顯示，適當的校正可以幫助提高辨識率。此外，虛擬全景拼接技術可以有效的節省比對時間以及每個地標所需的儲存空間。

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