Fourier-based image correlation is a powerful area-based image registration technique,
which involves aligning images based on a translation model or similarity model by means …

Progress in the last decade has brought about significant improvements in the accuracy and
speed of SLAM systems, broadening their mapping capabilities. Despite these …

Although the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm has been successfully
applied to both optical image registration and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image …

Automatic registration of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is one of the
most challenging tasks due to the influence of speckle noise and nonlinear radiation …

In analogy with the cumulative residual entropy recently proposed by Wang et al.[2003a. A
new and robust information theoretic measure and its application to image alignment. In …

Multimodal image registration is a class of algorithms to find correspondence from different
modalities. Since different modalities do not exhibit the same characteristics, finding …

Tracking both location and pose of multiple planar objects (MPOT) is of great significance to
numerous real-world applications. The greater degree-of-freedom of planar objects …

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration plays a key role in the applications such
as change detection and image mosaic, which is one of the most challenging tasks in recent …

Direct visual odometry and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods
determine camera poses by means of direct image alignment. This optimizes a photometric …

In summer of 2010, the first author (HL) visited the second author (XL) at Lanzhou University,
China, and chaired the dissertation defense for XL's two graduating doctoral students …