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Method for the automatic resetting of images

  • US 5,048,103 A
  • Filed: 03/16/1990
  • Issued: 09/10/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for the automatic resetting of images wherein a resetting is done of a second image, called a mask image, distorted with respect to a first image, called a reference image, each image having points and being defined as a collection of addresses of these points, each address being associated with a gray level, said method including the following steps:

  • a selection is made, preferably in the first image, of a set of landmarks;

    a search is made for the correspondents of these landmarks in the second image;

    an estimation is made of the shifts undergone by the selected landmarks of the first image with respect to the corresponding searched-for landmarks of the second image;

    one of the images, preferably the second image, is restored by correcting the position or the gray level of the points of this image in taking into account the shifts of the landmarks located in the neighborhood of these points;

    wherein, to make the selection,an assigning is done, to points of the first image, of a computed magnitude or of computed magnitudes characteristic of the solidity and of the homogenity of distribution of points of this image liable to act as landmarks;

    a sorting-out is done of the landmarks to be chosen as a function of the meeting of a criterion by a combination of the magnitudes at these points;

    wherein, to do the sorting out,a computation is made, at these points, of at least one of the following five magnitudes;

    *X1 ;

    the difference, preferably standardized, between the two images in the means of the gray levels, these means being computed in each of the two images on a population of points contained in windows framing considered superimposable points;

    *X2 ;

    the standard deviation of the gray levels of a population of points located in a window framing, in the first image, a landmark to be characterized;

    *X3 ;

    the useful value of Moravec for the points, to be characterized, of the first image;

    *X4 ;

    the standardized value of the gray level gradient, computer on a landmark to be characterized in the first image;

    *X5 ;

    the value (a) of the damping coefficient of the self-correlation function modelized by an exponential function, at the position of the landmark to be characterized.

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