BFSIFT: A novel method to find feature matches for sar image registration

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 649-653

  Wang, Shanhu ^a   You, Hongjian ^a   Fu, Kun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic scale space (ASS); Bilateral filter (BF); SAR image registration; Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SCALE-SPACE; BILATERAL FILTERS; FEATURE MATCH; GAUSSIAN SCALE SPACE; KEYPOINTS; NON-ITERATIVE; RANDOM SAMPLE CONSENSUS; RANGE IMAGES; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

ANISOTROPY; IMAGE REGISTRATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84861183797     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2177437     Document Type: Article

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