Title
An Enhancement to SIFT-Based Techniques for Image Registration
Abstract
Symmetric-SIFT is a recently proposed local technique used for registering multimodal images. It is based on a well-known general image registration technique named Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). Symmetric SIFT makes use of the gradient magnitude information at the image’s key regions to build the descriptors. In this paper, we highlight an issue with how the magnitude information is used in this process. This issue may result in similar descriptors being built to represent regions in images that are visually different. To address this issue, we have proposed two new strategies for weighting the descriptors. Our experimental results show that Symmetric-SIFT descriptors built using our proposed strategies can lead to better registration accuracy than descriptors built using the original Symmetric-SIFT technique. The issue highlighted and the two strategies proposed are also applicable to the general SIFT technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/DICTA.2010.39
DICTA
Keywords
Field
DocType
image registration,transforms,histogram weighting,multimodal image registration,symmetric-scale invariant feature transform,SIFT,histogram weighting,multimodal image registration
Histogram,Magnitude (mathematics),Scale-invariant feature transform,Computer vision,Weighting,Pattern recognition,Visualization,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Gradient magnitude,Image registration
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Md. Tanvir Hossain1151.36
Shyh Wei Teng215121.02
Guojun Lu360331.33
Martin Lackmann4223.09