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An SAR image registration method that combines nonlinear diffusion filtering, Hessian features and edge points is proposed in this paper to reduce speckle noise and obtain more image features. The proposed method uses the infinite symmetric exponential filter (ISEF) for image pre-processing and nonlinear diffusion filtering for scale-space construction. These measures can remove speckle noise from SAR images while preserving image edges. Hessian features and edge points are also employed as image features to optimize the utilization of feature information. Experiments with different noise levels, geometric transformations and image scenes demonstrate that the proposed method effectively improves the accuracy of SAR image registration compared with the SIFT-OCT, SAR-SIFT, Harris-SIFT, NF-Hessian and KAZE-SAR algorithms.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24144568","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,15]],"date-time":"2024-07-15T14:15:49Z","timestamp":1721052949000},"page":"4568","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["SAR Image Registration: The Combination of Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering, Hessian Features and Edge Points"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Guili","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhonghao","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Long","family":"Zhuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"188","DOI":"10.1109\/7.745691","article-title":"SAR imaging of moving targets","volume":"35","author":"Perry","year":"1999","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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