Joint Change Detection and Image Registration for Optical Remote Sensing Images

In this letter, a novel method is proposed for jointly unsupervised change detection and image registration over multi-temporal optical remote sensing images. An iterative energy minimization scheme is employed to extract the pixel opacity. Specifically, we extract the consistent points which provide the initial seed nodes and the feature nodes for random walker image segmentation and image registration, respectively. And the seed nodes will be updated according to the analysis of the changed and unchanged regions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can perform change detection as well as the state of the art methods. In particular, it can perform change detection rapidly and automatically over unregistered optical remote sensing images.