Neural approach for satellite image registration and pairing segmented areas
Paul Bourret, B. Cabon, Eliane Cubero-Castan, Esther Schaeffer, Jean-Yves Rousselot · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1995
This paper describes a complete method for pairing segmented areas on SPOT satellite images. Firstly, we present a segmentation algorithm which used a multi-scale edge detector and an edge closing process. Then, we propose a registration method without marker. This process is based upon the minimization of an energy function which can be computed after the segmentation step on the two images. Lastly we present a method for pairing sets of contiguous fields in the two images. The mapping of fields themselves is not possible because the fields may have merged (or be splitted into several fields) during the delay occurring between the two images. This method is also based upon the minimization of an energy function which is performed by the Mean Field Theory.