测绘通报 ›› 2018, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (10): 32-36,70.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2018.0310

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Oblique Aerial Image Matching Method Based on Dense SIFT and Improved Least Squares Matching Algorithm

YANG Xingbin, LÜ Jingguo, ZHANG Danlu, CHENG Zhe   

  1. College of Surveying and Urban Spatial Information, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 102616, China
  • Received:2018-03-27 Online:2018-10-25 Published:2018-10-31

Abstract: An automatic tie-points matching method of oblique image is proposed based on Dense SIFT and improved least squares matching to solve the problems of less matching points, uneven distribution and low matching efficiency. Firstly, the approximate orthophoto is obtained by the perspective transformation which the geometric deformation, scale and rotation between images is eliminated. Then pyramid image is built and split into blocks. Feature points are extracted using Dense SIFT algorithm from the top pyramid image block, and matching points are searched based on the KD tree, then the random sampling consistency algorithm is used to eliminate the mismatching points. An improved least squares matching algorithm is applied to correct the location of the initial matching point. Finally, the coordinate of the matching points are obtained by improved least square matching algorithm on all level pyramid images. Images of typical region is selected to test the matching effects, the experimental results show that the method can obtain dense and uniform matching points, and the efficiency is higher than SIFT and ASIFT algorithm.

Key words: oblique photogrammetry, perspective transformation, Dense SIFT, KD tree, least squares matching

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