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In this paper, we propose a method for the dense matching of aerial images using an optical flow field and a fast-guided filter. The proposed method utilizes a coarse-to-fine matching strategy for a pixel-wise correspondence search across stereo image pairs. The pyramid Lucas\u2013Kanade (L\u2013K) method is first used to generate a sparse optical flow field within the stereo image pairs, and an adjusted control lattice is then used to derive the multi-level B-spline interpolating function for estimating the dense optical flow field. The dense correspondence is subsequently refined through a combination of a novel cross-region-based voting process and fast guided filtering. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated on three bases, namely, the matching accuracy, the matching success rate, and the matching efficiency. The evaluative experiments were performed using sets of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images and aerial digital mapping camera (DMC) images. The results showed that the proposed method afforded the root mean square error (RMSE) of the reprojection errors better than \u00b10.5 pixels in image, and a height accuracy within \u00b12.5 GSD (ground sampling distance) from the ground. The method was further compared with the state-of-the-art commercial software SURE and confirmed to deliver more complete matches for images with poor-texture areas, the matching success rate of the proposed method is higher than 97% while SURE is 96%, and there is 47% higher matching efficiency. 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