Motion Consistency-Based Correspondence Growing for Remote Sensing Image Matching

In this letter, we propose a remote sensing image matching method that is simple yet efficient to deal with different deformations. Inspired by the region growing strategy used in image segmentation, we integrate the motion consistency into the general region growing pipeline from a novel perspective. Specifically, we first obtain a subset with a high ratio inlier as the seed correspondence set. Then, to find more reliable correspondences, we formulate the motion consistency into the correspondence growing criterion, which is general to be suitable to many remote sensing applications. Extensive experimental results on the public available remote sensing data set show that our method achieves the best performance compared with state-of-the-art methods.