Abstract
ABSTRACT The KAZE algorithm has been popularly used to match the remote sensing images. However, it has limited performance when its standard form is directly applied to match the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images containing significant multiplicative speckle noise. In this paper, an effective SAR image matching algorithm is proposed, which is a combination of KAZE, phase congruency, and speckle noise removing anisotropic diffusion. In this algorithm, the ratio-based Phase Congruency (PC) information is used to eliminate the erroneous features, which improves the repeatability rate of the KAZE features. In addition, the scale layers of the input SAR images are constructed by speckle noise removing anisotropic diffusion method which significantly reduces the effect of noise. The proposed method can improve the repeatability of the extracted KAZE features. Moreover, it can give better recall and precision values than the state-of-the-art methods. It gives the root mean square error (RMSE) values in the range of 0.881 to 1.104 pixels in SAR image matching. Experiments on multi-temporal SAR images demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.
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