Dmytro Dadyka 6231b080ff Merge pull request #27952 from DDmytro:ecc/template-mask-rework
Add optional template mask for findTransformECC #27952

Supersedes #22997

**Summary**
Add optional template mask support to findTransformECC so that only pixels valid in both the template and the image are used in ECC. Backward compatibility is preserved (existing signatures unchanged; one new overload adds templateMask).

**Motivation**

- Real-world frames often contain moving foreground artifacts (e.g., a football over a static field). Masking the object in one frame only is insufficient because its position changes independently of the background. Since we don’t know the warp a priori, we can’t back-project a single mask across frames. The correct approach is to supply both masks and take their intersection.
- Templates may include uninformative/low-texture or noisy regions, or partial overlaps with other objects. Excluding such regions from the alignment improves robustness and convergence.

This PR completes and replaces https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/22997

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