The paper surveys image mosaics technology.Image mosaics are the technologies that a large

seamless and high-resolution image is made from a set of images.The paper calls the 2-D surface formed by the image mosaics as the manifold.According to the mode how the manifold is formed

it divides the image mosaics into two kinds:adaptive manifold-based image mosaics and man-selected manifold based one.Adaptive manifold-based image mosaics are produced by the strips from video.Man-indicated manifold-based image mosaics are made from image alignment.It includes local alignment

global alignments and image blend.The paper classifies and discusses the above technologies.At last

it gives an evaluation and discusses the future development of image mosaics.