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A Deep-Based Approach for Multi-Descriptor Feature Extraction: Applications on SAR Image Registration
Javid Norouzi, Mohammad Sadegh Helfroush ∗, Alireza Liaghat, Habibollah Danyali
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have found increasing attention in various applications, such as remote sensing, surveillance, and disaster management. Unlike optical sensors, SAR can capture images in any weather conditions at any time, making it particularly valuable. However, it poses unique challenges for image processing tasks, like complex speckle noise, texture, and geometric distortions. For many image processing tasks such as image registration; feature detection and extraction are critical initial steps. In this work, we propose a deep learning-based method for detecting and describing keypoints in SAR images, which can be specifically applied to SAR image registration tasks. To address the challenges of SAR images, we utilize the R2D2 network and propose a training scheme specifically tailored for these images. Furthermore, our approach involves multiple descriptors utilization for outlier removal between image keypoints and a two-stage pipeline consisting of coarse and fine stages for robust feature point matching of SAR images. By leveraging the coarse registration stage, which maintains robustness, and also a fine stage that employs multiple descriptors along with a local search technique, our approach enhances the keypoint matching accuracy. Evaluation results show that the proposed method outperforms most of the traditional and deep learning-based methods in terms of the percentage of correct matches, while achieving comparable or even better root mean squared error (RMSE) results.
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