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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2018.34.6.2.9

Performance Comparison of Matching Cost Functions for High-Quality Sea-Ice Surface Model Generation  

Kim, Jae-In (Unit of Arctic Sea-ice Prediction, Korea Polar Research Institute)
Kim, Hyun-Cheol (Unit of Arctic Sea-ice Prediction, Korea Polar Research Institute)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.34, no.6_2, 2018 , pp. 1251-1260 More about this Journal
Abstract
High-quality sea-ice surface models generated from aerial images can be used effectively as field data for developing satellite-based remote sensing methods but also as analysis data for understanding geometric variations of Arctic sea-ice. However, the lack of texture information on sea-ice surfaces can reduce the accuracy of image matching. In this paper, we analyze the performance of matching cost functions for homogeneous sea-ice surfaces as a part of high-quality sea-ice surface model generation. The matching cost functions include sum of squared differences (SSD), normalized cross-correlation (NCC), and zero-mean normalized cross-correlation (ZNCC) in image domain and phase correlation (PC), orientation correlation (OC), and gradient correlation (GC) in frequency domain. In order to analyze the matching performance for texture changes clearly and objectively, a new evaluation methodology based on the principle of object-space matching technique was introduced. Experimental results showed that it is possible to secure reliability and accuracy of image matching only when optimal search windows are variably applied to each matching point in textureless regions such as sea-ice surfaces. Among the matching cost functions, NCC and ZNCC showed the best performance for texture changes.
Keywords
Sea ice; Digital surface model; Aerial image; Matching cost;
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