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Automatic Registration of High Resolution Satellite Images using Local Properties of Tie Points

지역적 매칭쌍 특성에 기반한 고해상도영상의 자동기하보정

  • 한유경 (서울대학교 건설환경시스템 공학부) ;
  • 번영기 (서울대학교 건설환경시스템 공학부) ;
  • 최재완 (서울대학교 건설환경시스템 공학부) ;
  • 한동엽 (전남대학교 공과대학 건설환경공학) ;
  • 김용일 (서울대학교 건설환경시스템 공학부)
  • Received : 2010.05.18
  • Accepted : 2010.06.03
  • Published : 2010.06.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose the automatic image-to-image registration of high resolution satellite images using local properties of tie points to improve the registration accuracy. A spatial distance between interest points of reference and sensed images extracted by Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT) is additionally used to extract tie points. Coefficients of affine transform between images are extracted by invariant descriptor based matching, and interest points of sensed image are transformed to the reference coordinate system using these coefficients. The spatial distance between interest points of sensed image which have been transformed to the reference coordinates and interest points of reference image is calculated for secondary matching. The piecewise linear function is applied to the matched tie points for automatic registration of high resolution images. The proposed method can extract spatially well-distributed tie points compared with SIFT based method.

본 논문은 Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT) 기술자를 이용한 매칭 방법을 개선하여 고해상도영상에서 보다 많은 매칭쌍(tie points)을 추출함으로써 고해상도영상 자동기하보정의 결과향상을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 기준(reference)영상과 대상(sensed)영상의 특징점(interest points)간의 위치관계를 추가적으로 이용하여 매칭쌍을 추출하였다. SIFT 기술자를 이용하여 어핀(affine)변환계수를 추정한 후, 이를 통해 대상영상의 특징점 좌표를 기준영상 좌표체계로 변환하였다. 변환된 대상영상의 특징점과 기준영상의 특징점간의 공간거리(spatial distance)정보를 이용하여 최종적으로 매칭쌍을 추출하였다. 추출된 매칭쌍으로 piecewise linear function을 구성하여 고해상도 영상간 자동기하보정을 수행하였다. 제안한 기법을 통하여, 기존 SIFT 기법에 의해 추출한 결과에 비해 영상 전역에 걸쳐 고르게 분포된 다수의 매칭쌍을 추출할 수 있었다.

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