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The subject of this chapter is spatial alignment. In image fusion this is defined as the process of geometrically aligning two or more images of the same scene acquired at different times (multi-temporal fusion), or with different sensors (multi-modal fusion), or from different viewpoints (multi-view fusion). It is a crucial pre-processing operation in image fusion and its accuracy is a major factor in determining the quality of the output image. In order to keep our discussion focused we shall concentrate on the image registration of two input images, A and B, which we define as finding the transformation T which “optimally” maps spatial locations in the image B to the corresponding spatial locations in the image A.
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Mitchell, H.B. (2010). Spatial Alignment. In: Image Fusion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11216-4_4
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