A robust registration technique for multi-sensor images

Abstract

This paper describes an improved technique to register multi-sensor images by segmenting the images by adaptive clustering prior to performing preprocessing and cepstrum operation to determine the translational displacement. The difficulty in registering multi sensor images lies in the fact that the images of the same scene acquired by different sensors often appear different in detailed structures. Therefore the common features existing in such images need to be identified by suitable preprocessing operations for the success of the cepstral registration technique. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of successful cepstral registration of SAR and electro-optic images of the same scene despite apparent noticeable differences in some embedded structures thus providing a potential powerful tool for automated registration.