A novel coarse-to-fine scheme for automatic image registration based on SIFT and mutual information

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4328-4338

  Gong, Maoguo ^a   Zhao, Shengmeng ^a   Jiao, Licheng ^a   Tian, Dayong ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image registration; mutual information (MI); outlier removal; Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICS;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION; AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; MARQUARDT-LEVENBERG; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; OUTLIER REMOVALS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896394249     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2281391     Document Type: Article

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