Feature-Driven Direct Non-Rigid Image Registration

  • Authors:
  • Florent Brunet;Vincent Gay-Bellile;Adrien Bartoli;Nassir Navab;Rémy Malgouyres

  • Affiliations:
  • ISIT/Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France and CAMPAR, TUM, München, Germany;CEA LIST, Vision and Content Engineering Laboratory, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 91191;ISIT/Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France;CAMPAR, TUM, München, Germany;LIMOS, Clermont-Ferrand, France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The direct registration problem for images of a deforming surface has been well studied. Parametric flexible warps based, for instance, on the Free-Form Deformation or a Radial Basis Function such as the Thin-Plate Spline, are often estimated using additive Gauss-Newton-like algorithms. The recently proposed compositional framework has been shown to be more efficient, but cannot be directly applied to such non-groupwise warps.Our main contribution in this paper is the Feature-Driven framework. It makes possible the use of compositional algorithms for most parametric warps such as those above mentioned. Two algorithms are proposed to demonstrate the relevance of our Feature-Driven framework: the Feature-Driven Inverse Compositional and the Feature-Driven Learning-based algorithms. As another contribution, a detailed derivation of the Feature-Driven warp parameterization is given for the Thin-Plate Spline and the Free-Form Deformation. We experimentally show that these two types of warps have a similar representational power. Experimental results show that our Feature-Driven registration algorithms are more efficient in terms of computational cost, without loss of accuracy, compared to existing methods.