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To cope with this problem, this paper proposes a new local feature descriptor termed histogram of oriented structure maps (HOSM) for multispectral image matching tasks. This proposed method consists of three steps. First, we propose a new method based on local contrast to construct the structure guidance images from the multispectral images by transferring the significant contours from source images to results, respectively. Second, we calculate oriented structure maps with guided image filtering. In details, we first construct edge maps by the progressive Sobel filters to extract the common structure characteristics from the multispectral images, and then we compute the oriented structure maps by performing the guided filtering on the edge maps with the structure guidance images constructed in the first step. Finally, we build the HOSM descriptor by calculating the histogram of oriented structure maps in a local region of each interest point and normalize the feature vector. The proposed HOSM descriptor was evaluated on three commonly used datasets and was compared with several state-of-the-art methods. The experimental results demonstrate that the HOSM descriptor can be robust to the nonlinear intensity difference in multispectral images and outperforms other methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11080951","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,22]],"date-time":"2019-04-22T11:02:53Z","timestamp":1555930973000},"page":"951","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["A Local Feature Descriptor Based on Oriented Structure Maps with Guided Filtering for Multispectral Remote Sensing Image Matching"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Tao","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"Science and Technology on Complex System Control and Intelligent Agent Cooperation Laboratory, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation third Academy, Beijing 100074, China"}]},{"given":"Kun","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"339","DOI":"10.1109\/LSP.2013.2294458","article-title":"SLD: A Novel Robust Descriptor for Image Matching","volume":"21","author":"Zhou","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Signal Process. 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