Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp

Hyperspectral images, which contain not only spatial information but also rich spectral information, have been extensively applied to the fields of agriculture, urban planning, etc. However, it is difficult for a single image to cover a large area. Therefore, it requires to take photos of various pa...

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Main Authors: Yujie Zhang, Zhiying Wan, Xingyu Jiang, Xiaoguang Mei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9112681/
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author Yujie Zhang
Zhiying Wan
Xingyu Jiang
Xiaoguang Mei
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Xingyu Jiang
Xiaoguang Mei
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description Hyperspectral images, which contain not only spatial information but also rich spectral information, have been extensively applied to the fields of agriculture, urban planning, etc. However, it is difficult for a single image to cover a large area. Therefore, it requires to take photos of various parts and apply image stitching technology to obtain a panoramic hyperspectral image. When the viewpoint of the scene changes a lot, the ghost issue will occur with traditional methods. In order to get the high-precision resultant panoramas, this article proposes an automatic image stitching algorithm for hyperspectral images using robust feature matching and elastic warp. Our method contains two stages. The first stage is to choose one band as reference band and obtain the panorama in a single band. In particular, we extract feature points by scale-invariant feature transform. Then, we propose an efficient algorithm called multiscale top K rank preservation algorithm, for establishing robust point correspondences between two sets of points. Next, we adopt robust elastic warp to obtain the panorama of each band. The second stage is to stitch all remaining bands based on the transformation obtained in the first stage and fuse the information of all bands together to get the final panoramic hyperspectral image. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method.
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spelling doaj.art-eefbabb3463f47ad8d92e8c783bbd7032022-12-21T20:12:44ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing2151-15352020-01-01133145315410.1109/JSTARS.2020.30010229112681Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic WarpYujie Zhang0Zhiying Wan1Xingyu Jiang2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9790-8856Xiaoguang Mei3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-8580Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaHyperspectral images, which contain not only spatial information but also rich spectral information, have been extensively applied to the fields of agriculture, urban planning, etc. However, it is difficult for a single image to cover a large area. Therefore, it requires to take photos of various parts and apply image stitching technology to obtain a panoramic hyperspectral image. When the viewpoint of the scene changes a lot, the ghost issue will occur with traditional methods. In order to get the high-precision resultant panoramas, this article proposes an automatic image stitching algorithm for hyperspectral images using robust feature matching and elastic warp. Our method contains two stages. The first stage is to choose one band as reference band and obtain the panorama in a single band. In particular, we extract feature points by scale-invariant feature transform. Then, we propose an efficient algorithm called multiscale top K rank preservation algorithm, for establishing robust point correspondences between two sets of points. Next, we adopt robust elastic warp to obtain the panorama of each band. The second stage is to stitch all remaining bands based on the transformation obtained in the first stage and fuse the information of all bands together to get the final panoramic hyperspectral image. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9112681/Elastic warpfeature matchinghyperspectral imagesimage stitching
spellingShingle Yujie Zhang
Zhiying Wan
Xingyu Jiang
Xiaoguang Mei
Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Elastic warp
feature matching
hyperspectral images
image stitching
title Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp
title_full Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp
title_fullStr Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp
title_short Automatic Stitching for Hyperspectral Images Using Robust Feature Matching and Elastic Warp
title_sort automatic stitching for hyperspectral images using robust feature matching and elastic warp
topic Elastic warp
feature matching
hyperspectral images
image stitching
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9112681/
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