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However, inconsistent imaging environment and conditions often lead to obvious geometric deformations and significant contrast differences between multimodal remote sensing images, which makes the common feature extraction extremely difficult, resulting in their registration still being a challenging task. To address this issue, a robust local statistics-based registration framework is proposed, and the constructed descriptors are invariant to contrast changes and geometric transformations induced by imaging conditions. Firstly, maximum phase congruency of local frequency information is performed by optimizing the control parameters. Then, salient feature points are located according to the phase congruency response map. Subsequently, the geometric and contrast invariant descriptors are constructed based on a joint local frequency information map that combines Log-Gabor filter responses over multiple scales and orientations. Finally, image matching is achieved by finding the corresponding descriptors; image registration is further completed by calculating the transformation between the corresponding feature points. The proposed registration framework was evaluated on four different multimodal image datasets with varying degrees of contrast differences and geometric deformations. Experimental results demonstrated that our method outperformed several state-of-the-art methods in terms of robustness and precision, confirming its effectiveness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14041051","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,21]],"date-time":"2022-02-21T20:48:41Z","timestamp":1645476521000},"page":"1051","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Robust Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Registration Based on Local Statistical Frequency Information"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2751-6096","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiangzeng","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6761-2496","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiepeng","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0306-6163","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xueling","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2743-2017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zixiang","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Ruyi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Bocheng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7316-4354","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yunan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2872-388X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiguang","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"47","DOI":"10.1016\/j.future.2014.10.029","article-title":"Remote sensing big data computing: Challenges and opportunities","volume":"51","author":"Ma","year":"2015","journal-title":"Future Gener. 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