Automatic image registration through image segmentation and SIFT

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2589-2600

  Gonçalves, Hernâni ^a   Corte Real, Luís ^a,b   Goncalves, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Automatic image registration (AIR); image segmentation; optical images; scale invariant feature transform (SIFT)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION; AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION (AIR); AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; DATA SETS; GEOMETRIC CORRECTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; OPTICAL IMAGE; PROCESS QUALITY; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; ROBUST PROCEDURES; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM (SIFT); SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SPECTRAL CONTENT; SUBPIXEL ACCURACY; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; TRANSFORM;

EID: 79959691142     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2109389     Document Type: Article

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