Using Image Registration Method to Register UAV

Abstract

For the UAV’s characteristics that is the date of camera shooting and photographing and digital map contain information, a UAV target location method is presented based on image matching. Firstly, using the artificial reconnaissance registration method that has improved, the UAV aerial images that consider digital map coordinates as the target are registered to obtain registration information. Then, the UAV video frame resolution containing the target is improved by improving the method of super-resolution reconstruction. Finally, making use of the Gaussian pyramid matching algorithm based on optical flow, the video frames are registered with the aerial to complete the target. By MATLAB and C++ simulation, achieving the above algorithm. The results proved that this method achieve the target location without the UAV position and attitude information, while improving the precision and speed of target location, that is an effective method for target location in the battlefield.