Is there a way to stitch 16 bit images

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Hi guys,

I am working on an image stitching project which requires two 16 bit gray-scale images to be stitched to a single image. But that's what the problem is?

Problem
You know that there is no proper libraries (at-least in opensource I think) which can stitch 16 bit images and without any loss. I have tried EmguCv, other github projects etc and etc... The Emgu CV stitches but not for 16 bit images. When I save the image, it converts into an 8 bit image.

The other github projects are just the same :(

"Everywhere I go, the answer is No"

What I have tried:

You can say that there is a software called Hugin which is promising. Yes yes I understand, but I can't use it and that's the problem.

And also the stitch should perform automatically without any user intervention.

So,
I came across this link a lot of times and its a great article on image stitching.

Automatic Image Stitching with Accord.NET[^]

Looking this on closer look even the harris algorithm written here supports up to 8 bit again. My question is, Is there a way to make it work for the 16 bit?

And finally,
In an helpless situation I can only turn back and see the developers here who can help me with it. And I don't want a delicious spoon feed. I just need an idea from your perspective which can solve my problem but not just an algorithm or something.

Any code samples would be even better. :)