An Automatic Robust Image Registration Algorithm for Aerial Mapping

Aerial mapping is attracting more attention due to the development in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their availability and also vast applications that require a wide aerial photograph of a region in a specific time. The cross-modality as well as translation, rotation, scale change and illumination are the main challenges in aerial image registration. This paper concentrates on an algorithm for aerial image registration to overcome the aforementioned issues. The proposed method is able to sample automatically and align the sensed images to form the final map. The results are compared with satellite images that shows a reasonable performance with geometrically correct registration.

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