Analysis and Simulation of Discrete Digital Image Matching.

Abstract : This report evaluates procedures for the approximate registration of digital images to maps and other images. It emphasizes point features and vectors derived from point features for image registration. Labeling and other means of adding definiteness to feature identification are promoted as ways to speed up registration. Clustering algorithms, distribution and type of features, hierarchical matching techniques, and other procedures are investigated with scene and map simulations. (Author)