Stitching Artefacts

Stitching artefacts are unwanted, visible errors that occur when individual frames are combined. Typical forms include offset or doubled edges, ghosting from moving objects, visible seam lines, and brightness or colour jumps between tiles.

Causes are usually parallax error from rotating away from the nodal point, insufficient overlap, moving image elements, or changing light conditions during capture. In high-resolution gigapixel images such errors are especially noticeable, as they become visible when zooming in.

Careful capture technique and controlled conditions reduce artefacts; dedicated methodologies handle moving areas deliberately.