Image mosaic for one aerial reconnaissance CCD camera based on object straight edge nodes

An image mosaic method of object straight edge nodes was proposed by the unique transformation relation between the image sequences of one aerial reconnaissance CCD camera. In that scheme, overlap area of images were first segmented into smaller sub-mages independently, and Canny edge detection operator was employed to extract the edge information from each single area, then straight edges from the obtained edge information were also derived by Hough transform. Moreover, a strategy of area expanding and selection was proposed to extract the straight edge nodes, and it was applied to keep the segment area containing an effective object. Finally, image registration was finished according to the obtained straight edge nodes, and seamless mosaic image could be achieved by bilinear interpolation method. The actual mosaic results are also presented to verify the effectives of the proposed image mosaic approach.