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Original Articles

Automatic Registration of Coastal Remotely Sensed Imagery by Affine Invariant Feature Matching with Shoreline Constraint

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Pages 32-46 | Received 29 May 2012, Accepted 15 Nov 2013, Published online: 04 Mar 2014
 

Abstract

A new approach based on Affine Invariant Feature Matching (AIFM) with a filtering technique is proposed for automatic registration of remotely sensed image in coastal areas. The novelty of this approach is an automatic filtering technique using RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC) with shoreline constraint for AIFM to remove all wrong matches and simultaneously keep as many correct matches as possible. To implement it, a progressive threshold strategy (from small value to large value) is presented to determine an appropriate RANSAC threshold, in which the progressive process is guided by shoreline constraint. The proposed approach (with filtering) is compared with standard AIFM (without filtering) using two typical image pairs in coastal areas. The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can always provide much better matching results than standard AIFM.

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks are given for the comments and contributions of anonymous reviewers and members of the editorial team.

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