Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform

� 2016 IEEE. This paper presents a novel approach for forward-looking sonar (FLS) image registration. By simplifying the sonar imaging motion model, we show that the transformation between two consecutive and near-consecutive sonar images approximately follows a rigid transformation. Then we propo...

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Main Authors: Zhang, J., Sohel, F., Bian, H., Bennamoun, M., An, Senjian
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70240
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author Zhang, J.
Sohel, F.
Bian, H.
Bennamoun, M.
An, Senjian
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Sohel, F.
Bian, H.
Bennamoun, M.
An, Senjian
author_sort Zhang, J.
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description � 2016 IEEE. This paper presents a novel approach for forward-looking sonar (FLS) image registration. By simplifying the sonar imaging motion model, we show that the transformation between two consecutive and near-consecutive sonar images approximately follows a rigid transformation. Then we propose a polar transform based approach for FLS image registration. We extract Gabor feature points and use them as the centers of the sampling regions for the polar transform. To reduce the influence of oversampling at the fovea, a Weighted Angular Projection Function (WAPF) is used to calculate the distance between two points in two images. This will determine the corresponding point pairs between the reference and target images. Then, the rotation between the two images can be calculated from the translation between the WAPFs of the corresponding point pairs. The translation between the two images is then calculated by using the Cartesian coordinates of the centers. Experimental results show that our proposed approach produced superior results compared with the state-of-the-art.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-702402018-08-08T04:56:38Z Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform Zhang, J. Sohel, F. Bian, H. Bennamoun, M. An, Senjian � 2016 IEEE. This paper presents a novel approach for forward-looking sonar (FLS) image registration. By simplifying the sonar imaging motion model, we show that the transformation between two consecutive and near-consecutive sonar images approximately follows a rigid transformation. Then we propose a polar transform based approach for FLS image registration. We extract Gabor feature points and use them as the centers of the sampling regions for the polar transform. To reduce the influence of oversampling at the fovea, a Weighted Angular Projection Function (WAPF) is used to calculate the distance between two points in two images. This will determine the corresponding point pairs between the reference and target images. Then, the rotation between the two images can be calculated from the translation between the WAPFs of the corresponding point pairs. The translation between the two images is then calculated by using the Cartesian coordinates of the centers. Experimental results show that our proposed approach produced superior results compared with the state-of-the-art. 2016 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70240 10.1109/OCEANS.2016.7761052 restricted
spellingShingle Zhang, J.
Sohel, F.
Bian, H.
Bennamoun, M.
An, Senjian
Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
title Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
title_full Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
title_fullStr Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
title_full_unstemmed Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
title_short Forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
title_sort forward-looking sonar image registration using polar transform
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70240