Improvement of the Harris corner detector using an entropy-block-based strategy

Yihang Sun; Emmett Ientilucci; Sophie Voisin

doi:10.1117/12.2305733

8 May 2018 Improvement of the Harris corner detector using an entropy-block-based strategy

Yihang Sun, Emmett Ientilucci, Sophie Voisin

Proceedings Volume 10644, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XXIV; 1064414 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2305733
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2018, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Extracting well distributed control points (CPs) is a very challenging task for remote sensing image registration, particularly for large high-resolution images over heterogeneous landscape. Based on image analysis such as edge detection, corner detection, and information theory, a new CP detection approach is proposed to select high- quality, evenly distributed CPs. The Entropy-Block-Based variant of the Harris Corner Detector (EBB-HCD) is achieved by dividing the image into blocks and by allocating the number of CP's based upon the entropy of each block. While the block-based strategy improves the CP balance problem, a factor calculated from entropy avoids overdetection. We conducted a comparison study utilizing the well-known Harris Corner Detector (HCD) and an implementation of the Block-Based Harris Corner Detector (BB-HCD). Experimental results indicate that using EBB-HCD to find the CPs improves the overall alignment accuracy during registration compared with HCD or BB-HCD.

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Yihang Sun, Emmett Ientilucci, and Sophie Voisin "Improvement of the Harris corner detector using an entropy-block-based strategy", Proc. SPIE 10644, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XXIV, 1064414 (8 May 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2305733

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