Basic concepts for the MIL Registration module

Albedo image. An image that represents a measure of the reflectance of an object's surface.

Confidence map. An image where the gray value of each pixel represents how reliable the index map is at that location.

Depth of field. The tolerated distance from the focus distance of a camera setup in which objects are considered in focus.

Index map. An image where the gray value of each pixel represents the index of an image, at which the pixel is most in focus.

Intensity map. An image where the gray value of each pixel is the intensity of the corresponding pixel in the image where that pixel is found to be most in focus.

Mosaicing. The process of combining many smaller images to form one larger image, using the results of the registration calculation.

Registration. The registration of images involves the fusion of multiple images of a common scene to obtain some resulting image.

Registration element. A data structure that stores the settings used to control the registration of a specific image. Registration elements are located in the registration context.

Registration element's image. The image whose index in the image array is the same as the index of a particular registration element. The registration of an image is controlled by the contents of its associated registration element.

Registration context. A MIL object that stores the registration information and each individual registration element.