Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1823-1827
Abstract
Because of the weather- and illumination-independent characteristics, Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) has been playing a more important role for target recognition. Local
stable feature descriptors in SAR image matching have been a interesting field in recent years.
A new local feature extraction method like Scale Invariant Feature Transformation (SIFT) is
proposed in this presentation, in which Local Gradient Ratio Pattern Histogram (LGRPH) based
on SAR image similarity are taken as local feature descriptor from the neighbourhood of key
points. Firstly, we extract the keypoints in difference of guassian (DoG) scale pyramid like many
modified SAR-SIFT methods. Secondly, in the neighbour of kepoints, the local gradient ratio
pattern histogram (LGRPH) is computed individually. Finally, the similarity is obtained by
utilizing K-L discrepancy to measure the distance of LGRPH. Experimental results based on
synthetic and real SAR images demonstrate that the proposed approach is robust to the speckle
noise and local gradient variation in SAR images.
Citation
Yi Su,
Tao Tang,
and
Deliang Xiang,
"A New Local Feature Descriptor for SAR Image Matching," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1823-1827