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However, the traditional bundle adjustment process faces a problem in detecting mismatches and evaluating low\/medium\/high-accuracy matches, which limits the final bundle adjustment accuracy, especially when the mismatches are several times more than the correct matches. To achieve more accurate bundle adjustment results, this paper formulates the prior knowledge of matching accuracy as matching confidences and proposes a matching confidence based bundle adjustment method. The core algorithm firstly selects several highest-confidence matches to initially correct orientations of all images, then detects and eliminates the mismatches under the initial orientation guesses and finally formulates both the matching confidences and the forward-backward projection errors as weights in an iterative bundle adjustment process for more accurate orientation results. We compared our proposed method with the famous RANSAC strategy as well as a state-of-the-art bundle adjustment method on the high-resolution multi-view satellite images. The experimental comparisons are evaluated by image checking points and ground control points, which shows that our proposed method is able to obtain more robust and more accurate mismatch detection results than the RANSAC strategy, even though the mismatches are four times more than the correct matches and it can also achieve more accurate orientation results than the state-of-the-art bundle adjustment method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12010020","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,23]],"date-time":"2019-12-23T03:15:01Z","timestamp":1577070901000},"page":"20","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Matching Confidence Constrained Bundle Adjustment for Multi-View High-Resolution Satellite Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5890-0691","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiao","family":"Ling","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore 138602, Singapore"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3797-6042","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xu","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9845-4251","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongjun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhan Engineering Science &amp; Technology Institute, Wuhan 430019, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Mo, D., Zhang, Y., and Li, X. 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