AUTOMATED CO-REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGES THROUGH LUMINANCE TRANSFORMATION

Gercek D., Çeşmeci D., Güllü M. K., Ertürk A., Ertürk S.

PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECORD, cilt.31, ss.407-427, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 31
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/phor.12160
  • Dergi Adı: PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECORD
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.407-427
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: co-registration, intensity-based, luminance transformation, sub-pixel, MISREGISTRATION
  • Kocaeli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper presents an extensive evaluation of a novel intensity-based image co-registration method called luminance transformed differences (LTD) which is compared with current alternatives. The proposed method suggests the use of the luminance transform operation (LTO) to reduce luminance differences between images that may well affect image registration accuracy. Registration is implemented in a block-based fashion in order to achieve a non-rigid transformation at a sub-pixel accuracy level. Sample images from different sensors, exhibiting various geometric distortions, are registered to test the various intensity-based image registration alternatives. LTD is found to outperform other methods; its high accuracy can be achieved even using small searching blocks which substantially reduce the computational cost.