ENVIFilterTiePointsByFundamentalMatrixTask

This task uses the fundamental matrix to constrain the location of the tie points.

The following diagram shows where this task belongs within an image-to-image registration workflow:

References

Jin, Xiaoying. ENVI automated image registration solutions. Harris Geospatial Systems whitepaper (2017). Available online at http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/Portals/0/pdfs/ENVI_Image_Registration_Whitepaper.pdf.

Jin, Xiaoying, and Robert Schafer. Method and system for automatic registration of images. Exelis, Inc., assignee; now owned by Harris Corporation. U.S. Patent No. 9,245,201 (issued January 26, 2016).

Example

This example uses sample images from the Image Registration tutorial. The files are available on the ENVI Resource DVD under the /image_reg directory or from the ENVI Tutorials web page. Click the "ENVI Tutorial Data" hyperlink. Copy the files to your local drive.

; Start the application

e = ENVI()

; Open input rasters

File1 = 'quickbird_2.4m.dat'

File2 = 'ikonos_4.0m.dat'

Raster1 = e.OpenRaster(File1)

Raster2 = e.OpenRaster(File2)

; Get the auto tie point generation task from the catalog of ENVITasks

Task = ENVITask('GenerateTiePointsByCrossCorrelation')

; Define inputs

Task.INPUT_RASTER1 = Raster1

Task.INPUT_RASTER2 = Raster2

; Run the task

Task.Execute

; Get the output tie points

TiePoints = Task.OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS

; Get the tie point filter task from the catalog of ENVITasks

FilterTask = ENVITask('FilterTiePointsByFundamentalMatrix')

; Define inputs

FilterTask.INPUT_TIEPOINTS = TiePoints

; Run the task

FilterTask.Execute

; Get the output tie points

TiePoints2 = FilterTask.OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS

; Get the image-to-image registration task from the catalog of ENVITasks

RegistrationTask = ENVITask('ImageToImageRegistration')

; Define inputs

RegistrationTask.INPUT_TIEPOINTS = TiePoints2

RegistrationTask.WARPING = 'Triangulation'

; Run the task

RegistrationTask.Execute

; Get the output raster

WarpedRaster = RegistrationTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

; Get the collection of data objects currently available in the Data Manager

DataColl = e.Data

; Add the output to the Data Manager

DataColl.Add, WarpedRaster

; Display the input rasters

View = e.GetView()

Layer1 = View.CreateLayer(Raster1)

Layer2 = View.CreateLayer(Raster2)

; Display the result

Layer3 = View.CreateLayer(WarpedRaster)

Syntax

Result = ENVITask('FilterTiePointsByFundamentalMatrix')

Input properties (Set, Get): INPUT_TIEPOINTS, OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS_URI, REPROJECTION_ERROR_THRESHOLD

Output properties (Get only): OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS

Properties marked as "Set" are those that you can set to specific values. You can also retrieve their current values any time. Properties marked as "Get" are those whose values you can retrieve but not set.

Methods

This task inherits the following methods from ENVITask:

Properties

This task inherits the following properties from ENVITask:

COMMUTE_ON_DOWNSAMPLE

BASE_RASTER (optional)

Set this property to one of the following strings, indicating which input raster is the base raster:

Raster 1 from Tie Points (default)
Raster 2 from Tie Points

INPUT_TIEPOINTS (optional)

This is a reference to the ENVITiePointSet object generated from ENVIGenerateTiePointsByCrossCorrelationTask or ENVIGenerateTiePointsByMutualInformationTask.

OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS

This is a reference to an ENVITiePointSet object with the output tie points.

OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS_URI (optional)

Specify a string with the fully qualified path and filename for OUTPUT_TIEPOINTS.

REPROJECTION_ERROR_THRESHOLD (optional)

Specify the reprojection error threshold to use. It is defined as the perpendicular distance (in pixel units) of a point in one image from its corresponding epipolar line computed from a point in another image. The default value is 10.0.

Version History

ENVI 5.2, Service Pack 1

Introduced

API Version

3.3