Real-time multi-modal rigid registration based on a novel symmetric-SIFT descriptor

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 643-651

  Chen, Jian ^a   Tian, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Keypoint; Matching; Multi modal; Registration; Symmetric SIFT

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION;

DESCRIPTORS; INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; KEYPOINTS; MATCHINGS; MULTI-MODAL; REGISTRATION; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURES; SIMILARITY METRICS; SYMMETRIC-SIFT; SYMMETRICS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 65549144629     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2008.06.029     Document Type: Article

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