An Improved SIFT Algorithm based on KFDA in Image Registration

As a kind of stable feature matching algorithm, SIFT has been widely used in many fields. In order to further improve the robustness of the SIFT algorithm, an improved SIFT algorithm with Kernel Discriminant Analysis (KFDA-SIFT) is presented for image registration. The algorithm uses KFDA to SIFT descriptors for feature extraction matrix, and uses the new descriptors to conduct the feature matching, finally chooses RANSAC to deal with the matches for further purification. The experiments show that the presented algorithm is robust to image changes in scale, illumination, perspective, expression and tiny pose with higher matching accuracy.