Feature-point-extracting-based automatically mosaic for composite microscopic images

Image mosaic is a crucial step in the three-dimensional reconstruction of composite materials to align the serial images. A novel method is adopted to mosaic two SiC/Al microscopic images with an amplification coefficient of 1000. The two images are denoised by Gaussian model, and feature points are then extracted by using Harris corner detector. The feature points are filtered through Canny edge detector. A 40×40 feature template is chosen by sowing a seed in an overlapped area of the reference image, and the homologous region in floating image is acquired automatically by the way of correlation analysis. The feature points in matched templates are used as feature point-sets. Using the transformational parameters acquired by SVD-ICP method, the two images are transformed into the universal coordinates and merged to the final mosaic image.

Feature-point-extracting-based automatically mosaic for composite microscopic images

Image mosaic is a crucial step in the three-dimensional reconstruction of composite materials to align the serial images. A novel method is adopted to mosaic two SiC/Al microscopic images with an amplification coefficient of 1000. The two images are denoised by Gaussian model, and feature points are then extracted by using Harris corner detector. The feature points are filtered through Canny edge detector. A 40×40 feature template is chosen by sowing a seed in an overlapped area of the reference image, and the homologous region in floating image is acquired automatically by the way of correlation analysis. The feature points in matched templates are used as feature point-sets. Using the transformational parameters acquired by SVD-ICP method, the two images are transformed into the universal coordinates and merged to the final mosaic image. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50672090 and 50572034)