Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5): 1536-1542.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.05.14

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SAR and optical image registration algorithm based on style transfer invariable features

Shiwei CHEN, Hai XIA*, Xiaogang YANG, Xiaofeng LI   

  1. Missile Engineering Institute, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi'an 710025, China
  • Received:2021-03-19 Online:2022-05-01 Published:2022-05-16
  • Contact: Hai XIA

Abstract:

According to the matching difficulties of multi-sensor remote sensing images, a new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical image registration approach based on image style transfer invariable features is proposed. First, the style transfer neural network for SAR image conversion to optical image is trained. Then, the artificial optical image and the difference map between the artificial optical image and the original SAR image are generated based on the style transfer neural network, and the edge regions of the artificial optical image and the difference image are enhanced by using the multi-scale characteristics of wavelet. After binary segmentation, the stable edge features of the artificial optical image. And the edge features of the optical reference image are also extracted. Finally, the edge features are matched by the cross-correlation criterion to achieve the accurate registration between the original SAR image and the optical reference image. The experiments demonstrate that the artificial optical image can be accurately registered with the optical reference image even under the condition of insufficient training samples. This enhances the adaptability of the algorithm.

Key words: multi-sensor images matching, image style transfer, difference image, stable edge features

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