2-D and 3-D Image Registration -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Terminologies -- 1.2 Steps in Image Registration -- 1.3 Summary of the Chapters to Follow -- 1.4 Bibliographical Remarks -- 2 Preprocessing -- 2.1 Image Enhancement -- 2.1.1 Image smoothing -- 2.1.2 Deblurring -- 2.2 Image Segmentation -- 2.2.1 Intensity thresholding -- 2.2.2 Boundary detection -- 2.3 Summary -- 2.4 Bibliographical Remarks -- 3 Feature Selection -- 3.1 Points -- 3.2 Lines -- 3.2.1 Line detection using the Hough transform -- 3.2.2 Least-squares line fitting -- 3.2.3 Line detection using image gradients -- 3.3 Regions -- 3.4 Templates -- 3.5 Summary -- 3.6 Bibliographical Remarks -- 4 Feature Correspondence -- 4.1 Point Pattern Matching -- 4.1.1 Matching using scene coherence -- 4.1.2 Matching using clustering -- 4.1.3 Matching using invariance -- 4.2 Line Matching -- 4.3 Region Matching -- 4.3.1 Shape matching -- 4.3.2 Region matching by relaxation labeling -- 4.4 Chamfer Matching -- 4.4.1 Distance transform -- 4.5 Template Matching -- 4.5.1 Similarity measures -- 4.5.2 Gaussian-weighted templates -- 4.5.3 Template size -- 4.5.4 Coarse-to-fine methods -- 4.6 Summary -- 4.7 Bibliographical Remarks -- 5 Transformation Functions -- 5.1 Similarity Transformation -- 5.2 Projective and Affine Transformations -- 5.3 Thin-Plate Spline -- 5.4 Multiquadric -- 5.5 Weighted Mean Methods -- 5.6 Piecewise Linear -- 5.7 Weighted Linear -- 5.8 Computational Complexity -- 5.9 Properties of the Transformation Functions -- 5.10 Summary -- 5.11 Bibliographical Remarks -- 6 Resampling -- 6.1 Nearest Neighbor -- 6.2 Bilinear Interpolation -- 6.3 Cubic Convolution -- 6.4 Cubic Spline -- 6.5 Radially Symmetric Kernels -- 6.6 Summary -- 6.7 Bibliographical Remarks -- 7 Performance Evaluation -- 7.1 Feature Selection Performance.

7.2 Feature Correspondence Performance -- 7.3 Transformation Function Performance -- 7.4 Registration Performance -- 7.5 Summary -- 7.6 Bibliographical Remarks -- 8 Image Fusion -- 8.1 Fusing Multi-Exposure Images -- 8.1.1 Image blending -- 8.1.2 Examples -- 8.2 Fusing Multi-Focus Images -- 8.3 Summary -- 8.4 Bibliographical Remarks -- 9 Image Mosaicking -- 9.1 Problem Description -- 9.2 Determining the Global Transformation -- 9.3 Blending Image Intensities -- 9.4 Examples -- 9.5 Mosaicking Range Images -- 9.6 Evaluation -- 9.7 Summary -- 9.8 Bibliographical Remarks -- 10 Stereo Depth Perception -- 10.1 Stereo Camera Geometry -- 10.2 Camera Calibration -- 10.3 Image Rectification -- 10.4 The Correspondence Process -- 10.4.1 Constraints in stereo -- 10.4.2 Correspondence algorithms -- 10.5 Interpolation -- 10.6 Summary -- 10.7 Bibliographical Remarks -- Glossary -- References -- Index.