Image registration using Hough transform and phase correlation

Abstract

This paper presents image registration using a combination of Hough transform and phase correlation technique in Fourier domain to estimate rotation and translation parameters. These parameters are used to register input images and create a seamless representation of the registered image. The first step is based on 1D phase correlation which calculates the translation of angle in Hough space, obtained form Hough transform. The rotation parameter obtain from this step is used to de-rotated the input images. The second step provides the translation in x-y axis using 2D phase correlation. Finally, the input images are registered using the estimated translation parameter. The experimental results show the accuracy of the proposed method to detect the translation parameters and find the relevant potential angles of rotation for various image details and sizes. The proposed method is ease to operation, less computation complexity, thus requires less amount of process time due to the high efficiency of fast Fourier transform (FFT).