An image matching method based on closed edges incorporated with vertex angles

An image matching method based on closed edges incorporated with vertex angles is proposed in this paper. Based on edge detection results by Edison operator, invariant moments of closed edges and angles between the two branches for edge vertexes are used as matching entities to determine conjugate features candidates. The transformation relationship between images is approximated by similarity transformation model, and a set of transformation parameters can be determined by each pair of conjugate features after combining conjugate feature candidates in pair-wise. Furthermore, considering that the difference among transformation parameters which calculated by real conjugate features are minor, K-d tree method and K-means Spatial clustering method are used in succession to eliminate pairs which contain mismatching features. Therefore, conjugate features can be obtained from the similarity transformation parameters. Experimental results turn out that this method shows a stable performance and presents a satisfactory matching result.