An iterative image registration technique with an application to stereo vision

• Authors: Bruce D. Lucas;Takeo Kanade
• Venue: IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
• Year: 1981

Image registration finds a variety of applications in computer vision. Unfortunately, traditional image registration techniques tend to be costly. We present a new image registration technique that makes use of the spatial intensity gradient of the images to find a good match using a type of Newton-Raphson iteration. Our technique is taster because it examines far fewer potential matches between the images than existing techniques Furthermore, this registration technique can be generalized to handle rotation, scaling and shearing. We show how our technique can be adapted tor use in a stereo vision system.