Abstract
This paper proposes a novel registration method for optical and SAR images which is based on straight line features and mutual information. Firstly, different edge detectors are employed to detect the line segments in both optical and SAR images respectively. Then, through the Hough transform and a straight line fitting and filtration method, the main straight lines of each image are extracted and their intersections are obtained and taken as the candidate matching points. With the RANSAC (RANdom SAmpling Consensus) method, corresponding point pairs (CPPs) are found with these candidate points and a coarse registration between the heterogeneous images is implemented. At last, by using the mutual information of the separated patches generated from the coarse registered images, a fine registration result is finally achieved. The experiment with a pair of X-band air-borne SAR and optical images validates the efficiency and precision of the proposed method.
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