Abstract:Aiming at the problem that Local Self-similarity descriptor (LSS) is not suitable for multi-modal image registration, a novel self-similarity descriptor is proposed, which can be effectively used for multi-modal image registration. First, the phase congruency algorithm is used to extract the maximum moment of the multimodal image. Second, Harris keypoints are extracted from the edge images obtained from the maximum moment information. Third, a binary image is generated based on the edge image, and a binary self-similar descriptor is constructed based on the binary image. Finally, the similarity calculation of descriptors and keypoints matching are carried out for multimodal images. Comparative experiments show that the proposed binary self-similar descriptor can replace the traditional self-similar descriptor, and effectively improve the compatibility and efficiency of the self-similar descriptor for multimodal images.