A Matching Algorithm for Underwater Acoustic and Optical Images Based on Image Attribute Transfer and Local Features

In the field of underwater vision, image matching between the main two sensors (sonar and optical camera) has always been a challenging problem. The independent imaging mechanism of the two determines the modalities of the image, and the local features of the images under various modalities are sign...

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Autores principales: Xiaoteng Zhou, Changli Yu, Xin Yuan, Citong Luo
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:In the field of underwater vision, image matching between the main two sensors (sonar and optical camera) has always been a challenging problem. The independent imaging mechanism of the two determines the modalities of the image, and the local features of the images under various modalities are significantly different, which makes the general matching method based on the optical image invalid. In order to make full use of underwater acoustic and optical images, and promote the development of multisensor information fusion (MSIF) technology, this letter proposes to apply an image attribute transfer algorithm and advanced local feature descriptor to solve the problem of underwater acousto-optic image matching. We utilize real and simulated underwater images for testing; experimental results show that our proposed method could effectively preprocess these multimodal images to obtain an accurate matching result, thus providing a new solution for the underwater multisensor image matching task.