Mutual information (MI) is a widely used similarity metric for multimodality image registration. However, it involves an extremely high computational time especially when it is applied to volume images. Moreover, its robustness is affected by existence of local maxima. The multi-resolution pyramid approaches have been proposed to speed up the registration process and increase the accuracy of th...

In many applications some parts of an image are of special interest. We present in this paper results of the analysis of the vertical path lengths in stochastic graph image pyramids. Such path lengths evaluate the efficiency of the pyramid structure needed e.g. for algorithms which derive object properties from the object pixels in the image. Our aim is to build stochastic image pyramid locally...

A pyramid approach for multimodality image registration based on mutual information is presented. The image pyramid is obtained by using the wavelet transform. An exhaustive search algorithm at the coarsest level of the image pyramid is developed. Image partitioning and gray level intensity binning are used to increase the fidelity of the process. Because of the fact that image partitioning is ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel image alignment algorithm based on rotation-discriminating ring-shifted projection for automatic optical inspection. This new algorithm not only identifies the location of the template image within an inspection image but also provides precise rotation information during the template-matching process by using a novel rotation estimation scheme, the so-calle...