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An Automatic Thermal and Visible Image Registration Using a Calibration Rig

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Recent Trends in Image and Signal Processing in Computer Vision

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Registration of thermal and visible image is a prominent prerequisite for the various medical and industrial image processing. Due to the different imaging principles, the contrast variation and texture are different in the thermal and visible image. In such cases, the automatic registration of thermal and visible image is a crucial step. In this paper, an automatic calibration rig-based registration algorithm is proposed. The calibration rig is used to extract the correspondence pairs in both images. The proposed algorithm finds the corner and centroid of the square in calibration rig which has the same position in world coordinates and same characteristic in thermal and visible image. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is good for the automatic registration without any human intervention.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Director, CSIR-CSIO for providing the necessary infrastructure during the investigation. This work is under the fellowship of CSIR-SRF.

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  1. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), 201002, Ghaziabad, India

    Lalit Maurya & Prasant Mahapatra

  2. CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO), 160030, Chandigarh, India

    Lalit Maurya, Prasant Mahapatra & Sanjeev Verma

  3. Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), 160030, Chandigarh, India

    Deepak Chawla

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Maurya, L., Mahapatra, P., Chawla, D., Verma, S. (2020). An Automatic Thermal and Visible Image Registration Using a Calibration Rig. In: Jain, S., Paul, S. (eds) Recent Trends in Image and Signal Processing in Computer Vision. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1124. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2740-1_5

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