Contour Matching Method for SAR Images Based on Salient Contour Features

Xiaorui MA; Changwen ZHENG; Yi LIANG

doi:10.11999/JEIT210368

Volume 43 Issue 11

Nov. 2021

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Xiaorui MA, Changwen ZHENG, Yi LIANG. Contour Matching Method for SAR Images Based on Salient Contour Features[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2021, 43(11): 3174-3184. doi: 10.11999/JEIT210368

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Xiaorui MA, Changwen ZHENG, Yi LIANG. Contour Matching Method for SAR Images Based on Salient Contour Features[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2021, 43(11): 3174-3184. doi: 10.11999/JEIT210368

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Contour Matching Method for SAR Images Based on Salient Contour Features

doi: 10.11999/JEIT210368

Xiaorui MA^{1, 2, 3
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Changwen ZHENG²,
Yi LIANG⁴

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University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
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Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190, China
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Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61971326)

Received Date: 2021-04-30
Rev Recd Date: 2021-08-13

Available Online: 2021-08-24

Publish Date: 2021-11-23

Abstract

Abstract

In the research of matching navigation and precision guidance using spaceborne SAR image as the reference image and airborne/missile SAR image as the real-time image, the traditional point feature-based matching method has too many feature points, high mismatch rate, and easy affected by problems such as noise and gray level changes. A new method for matching SAR remote sensing images from coarse to fine based on salient contour features is proposed. Based on the pre-processing of SAR images, an improved Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering image segmentation is used to to extract closed contour features. Then, a normalized contour center distance descriptor is constructed for two-way matching to obtain the rough matching contours with strong robustness. Finally, the improved Local Binary Pattern (LBP) operator is employed on the rough matching contours to gain the fine matching result. The experimental results demonstrate the proposed method has the advantages of high accuracy and strong robustness in the case of image rotation, spatial variation and noise interference, and is suitable for remote sensing SAR image matching.
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image,
- Contour matching,
- Centroid distance,
- Local Binary Pattern (LBP)

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