Robust and efficient image alignment based on relative gradient matching

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2936-2943

  Wei, Shou Der ^a   Lai, Shang Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Energy minimization; Illumination variations; Image alignment; Image matching; Industrial inspection; Nearest neighbor search; Robust image matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN MATCHING; VECTORS;

ILLUMINATION VARIATIONS; IMAGE ALIGNMENT; IMAGE MATCHING; RELATIVE GRADIENT MATCHING; ROBUST IMAGE MATCHING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33749172835     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.877500     Document Type: Article

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