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Although CNN-based SAR image registration methods have achieved competitive results, they are insensitive to small displacement errors in matched point pairs and do not provide a comprehensive description of keypoint information in complex scenes. In addition, existing keypoint detectors are unable to obtain a uniform distribution of keypoints in SAR images with complex scenes. In this paper, we propose a texture constraint-based phase congruency (TCPC) keypoint detector that uses a rotation-invariant local binary pattern operator (RI-LBP) to remove keypoints that may be located at overlay or shadow locations. Then, we propose a Siamese dense capsule network (SD-CapsNet) to extract more accurate feature descriptors. Then, we define and verify that the feature descriptors in capsule form contain intensity, texture, orientation, and structure information that is useful for SAR image registration. In addition, we define a novel distance metric for the feature descriptors in capsule form and feed it into the Hard L2 loss function for model training. Experimental results for six pairs of SAR images demonstrate that, compared to other state-of-the-art methods, our proposed method achieves more robust results in complex scenes, with the number of correctly matched keypoint pairs (NCM) at least 2 to 3 times higher than the comparison methods, a root mean square error (RMSE) at most 0.27 lower than the compared methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15071871","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]],"date-time":"2023-03-31T10:19:33Z","timestamp":1680257973000},"page":"1871","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["SD-CapsNet: A Siamese Dense Capsule Network for SAR Image Registration with Complex Scenes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Bangjie","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"High-Tech Institute of Xi\u2019an, Xi\u2019an 710025, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5025-8200","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongdong","family":"Guan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High-Tech Institute of Xi\u2019an, Xi\u2019an 710025, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaolong","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High-Tech Institute of Xi\u2019an, Xi\u2019an 710025, China"}]},{"given":"Zhengsheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High-Tech Institute of Xi\u2019an, Xi\u2019an 710025, China"}]},{"given":"Lefei","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High-Tech Institute of Xi\u2019an, Xi\u2019an 710025, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1343","DOI":"10.5194\/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-1343-2020","article-title":"Flood detection in time series of optical and sar images","volume":"43","author":"Rambour","year":"2020","journal-title":"Int. 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