نویسندگان | Mohammadreza Pourfard- Tahmineh Hosseinian- Roghayeh Saeidi- Sayed Ahmad Motamedi- Mohammad Javad Abdollahifard- Reza Mansoori- Reza Safabakhshh |
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نشریه | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
ارائه به نام دانشگاه | تفرش |
شماره صفحات | 1-12 |
شماره مجلد | 60 |
ضریب تاثیر (IF) | 5.6 |
نوع مقاله | Full Paper |
تاریخ انتشار | 18 June 2021 |
رتبه نشریه | ISI |
نوع نشریه | چاپی |
کشور محل چاپ | ایالات متحدهٔ امریکا |
چکیده مقاله
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration is still a challenging task in remote sensing. The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) method and its extensions are most widely used feature detectors in SAR images. However, due to the presence of nonlinear speckle noise, some wrong features are chosen which directly influence the feature matching process. In this article, for the first time, the KAZE algorithm with a modified version of speeded-up robust features (SURF) descriptor is used for SAR image registration. It uses discrete stochastic second order nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) to model the SAR image’s edge structure. KAZE uses nonlinear diffusion filtering to build up the scale levels of the SIFT descriptor. It preserves the edges while simultaneously decreasing the speckle noise in smoothing the image. Therefore, it captures the exact location of features in down-sampling and filtering stages of SIFT. Experimental results show that our proposed method has increased the localization accuracy and distinctiveness of feature extraction through the use of KAZE detector. Our method is also able to handle challenging cases in different image sources, different view angles, different image times, complex affine mapping, presence of blurring, and noise.