Remote Sensing Image Registration Based on Improved KAZE and BRIEF Descriptor

Abstract

Remote sensing image registration is still a challenging task owing to the significant influence of nonlinear differences between remote sensing images. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel approach with regard to feature-based remote sensing image registration. There are two key contributions: 1) we bring forward an improved strategy of composite nonlinear diffusion filtering according to the scale factors in multi-scale space and 2) we design a gradually decreasing resolution of multi-scale pyramid space. And a binary code string is served as feature descriptors to improve matching efficiency. Extensive experiments of different categories of remote image datasets on feature extraction and feature registration are performed. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme compared with other classical algorithms in terms of correct matching ratio, accuracy and computation efficiency.