From 3b82fb77d78c033bccb94f125aff14747c21333b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bhushan Asati <bhushanasati25@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 15:34:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] stitching: cite DpSeamFinder reference

---
 doc/opencv.bib                                       | 12 ++++++++++++
 .../opencv2/stitching/detail/seam_finders.hpp        |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/opencv.bib b/doc/opencv.bib
index c96d65c919..204fe04160 100644
--- a/doc/opencv.bib
+++ b/doc/opencv.bib
@@ -27,6 +27,18 @@
   publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   address = {Washington, DC, USA},
 }
+@article{MillsD09,
+  author = {Mills, Alec and Dudek, Gregory},
+  title = {Image stitching with dynamic elements},
+  journal = {Image and Vision Computing},
+  year = {2009},
+  volume = {27},
+  number = {10},
+  pages = {1593--1602},
+  publisher = {Elsevier},
+  doi = {10.1016/j.imavis.2009.03.004},
+  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2009.03.004}
+}
 @article{Zhao23,
   author = {Zhao, Xiaoming and Wu, Xingming and Chen, Weihai and Chen, Peter C. Y. and Xu, Qingsong and Li, Zhengguo},
   title = {ALIKED: A Lighter Keypoint and Descriptor Extraction Network via Deformable Transformation},
diff --git a/modules/stitching/include/opencv2/stitching/detail/seam_finders.hpp b/modules/stitching/include/opencv2/stitching/detail/seam_finders.hpp
index bae7aa0135..de62f65f3d 100644
--- a/modules/stitching/include/opencv2/stitching/detail/seam_finders.hpp
+++ b/modules/stitching/include/opencv2/stitching/detail/seam_finders.hpp
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ private:
 };
 
 
+/** @brief Dynamic programming-based seam estimator. See @cite MillsD09 for a related approach.
+ */
 class CV_EXPORTS_W DpSeamFinder : public SeamFinder
 {
 public: