Optimizing Relative Radiometric Normalization: Minimizing Residual Distortions in Multispectral Bitemporal Images Using Trust-Region Reflective and Laplacian Pyramid Fusion

Abstract

Accurate relative radiometric normalization (RRN) is important for reliable multitemporal remote sensing image analysis. Traditional methods often depend on coregistered image pairs, limiting their applicability with unregistered data. Keypoint-based RRN (KRRN) relaxes this constraint but remains affected by residual radiometric errors due to normalization inaccuracies and nonlinear effects. This letter introduces a refinement strategy that leverages the trust-region reflective (TRR) algorithm to optimize normalization parameters, coupled with Laplacian pyramid (LP) fusion for seamless image integration. Evaluation on four multispectral image pairs from different sensors (e.g., Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, IRS and Landsat 5, Landsat 7 and SPOT-5, and UK-DMC2 and Landsat 5) and one pair from the same sensor (Sentinel-2) showed that our method reduces residual radiometric discrepancies, achieving up to 29% lower RMSE than some well-known models. The source code and datasets are available on GitHub: https://github.com/ArminMoghimi/Tensor-based-keypoint-detection