We proposed an intensity-based morphological pyramid image registration algorithm. This approach utilizes the global affine transformation model, also considering radiometric changes between images. With the morphological pyramid structure, Levenberg-Marquardt optimization, and bilinear interpolation, this algorithm can be implemented hierarchically and iteratively with capability of measuring, to subpixel accuracy, the displacement between images subjected to simultaneous translation, rotation, scaling, and shearing. The morphological pyramid shows better performance than Gaussian pyramid in this matching technique.
Zhongxiu Hu, Scott T. Acton