Chapter 9: Registration

This chapter explains how to use the MIL Registration module to find the transformations that optimally position images in a common coordinate system; this process is referred to as image registration and the common coordinate system is referred to as the global pixel coordinate system. This chapter also describes how to use the module to perform extended depth of field registration, and other imaging operations with the registration results.

• MIL Registration module
• • Correlation registration
  • Mosaicing and super resolution
  • Extended depth of field registration
• Steps to performing a correlation-stitching registration
• Basic concepts for the MIL Registration module
• The registration process
• • Correlation contexts
• Registration elements and images
• Setting the rough location of your images
• • Selecting an image's reference coordinate system
  • Specifying the type of transformation and its settings
  • Copying the rough location
  • Precision of the rough location and its effect on speed
• Customizing your registration settings
• • Selecting the transformation type
  • Specifying the maximum allowable displacement
  • Skipping the optimization step
  • Specifying the minimum overlap between images
  • Accuracy
  • Setting the origin of an image's pixel coordinate system
• Retrieving and analyzing results
• • Possible results
  • Using the results
  • Drawing results
• Mosaicing
• • Positioning and scaling your mosaic in the destination image buffer
  • Mosaic composition in the overlapping regions
  • Mosaic composition using super-resolution
• Extending your depth of field
• • Steps to performing an extended depth of field registration
  • Customizing your extended depth of field context
  • Registration process
  • Retrieving and using extended depth of field results
• Registration example