Research Article

Novel Registration and Fusion Algorithm for Multimodal Railway Images with Different Field of Views

Table 1

Comparison of different matching algorithms.

Methodfeature point numbers in IR/Visible imageCandidate matching pointsFine matching pointsCorrect points

SIFT+
RANSAC
664/11,43366460

SURF+
RANSAC
523/2,76652340

Our method553/2,7667233