imreg 2020.1.1

FFT based image registration

Imreg is a Python library that implements an FFT-based technique for translation, rotation and scale-invariant image registration [1].

Author:

Christoph Gohlke

Organization:

Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine

License:

BSD 3-Clause

Version:

2020.1.1

Requirements

• CPython >= 3.6

• Numpy 1.14

• Scipy 1.3

• Matplotlib 3.1 (optional for plotting)

Notes

Imreg is no longer being actively developed.

This implementation is mainly for educational purposes.

An improved version is being developed at https://github.com/matejak/imreg_dft.

References

1. An FFT-based technique for translation, rotation and scale-invariant image registration. BS Reddy, BN Chatterji. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 5, 1266-1271, 1996

2. An IDL/ENVI implementation of the FFT-based algorithm for automatic image registration. H Xiea, N Hicksa, GR Kellera, H Huangb, V Kreinovich. Computers & Geosciences, 29, 1045-1055, 2003.

3. Image Registration Using Adaptive Polar Transform. R Matungka, YF Zheng, RL Ewing. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 18(10), 2009.

Examples

>>> im0 = imread('t400')
>>> im1 = imread('Tr19s1.3')
>>> im2, scale, angle, (t0, t1) = similarity(im0, im1)
>>> imshow(im0, im1, im2)

>>> im0 = imread('t350380ori')
>>> im1 = imread('t350380shf')
>>> t0, t1 = translation(im0, im1)
>>> t0, t1
(20, 50)