Image Registration

Align two images using intensity correlation, feature matching, or control point mapping

Together, Image Processing Toolbox™ and Computer Vision Toolbox™ offer four image registration solutions: interactive registration with a Registration Estimator app, intensity-based automatic image registration, control point registration, and automated feature matching. For help selecting which approach to use, see Approaches to Registering Images.

Apps

Registration Estimator

Functions

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Automatic Registration

`imregister`	Intensity-based image registration
`imregconfig`	Configurations for intensity-based registration
`imregtform`	Estimate geometric transformation that aligns two 2-D or 3-D images
`imregcorr`	Estimate geometric transformation that aligns two 2-D images using phase correlation
`imregdemons`	Estimate displacement field that aligns two 2-D or 3-D images
`imregmtb`	Register 2-D images using median threshold bitmaps
`normxcorr2`	Normalized 2-D cross-correlation
`MattesMutualInformation`	Mattes mutual information metric configuration
`MeanSquares`	Mean square error metric configuration
`RegularStepGradientDescent`	Regular step gradient descent optimizer configuration
`OnePlusOneEvolutionary`	One-plus-one evolutionary optimizer configuration

Control Point Registration

`cpselect`	Control Point Selection tool
`fitgeotrans`	Fit geometric transformation to control point pairs
`cpcorr`	Tune control point locations using cross-correlation
`cpstruct2pairs`	Extract valid control point pairs from `cpstruct` structure
`imwarp`	Apply geometric transformation to image

Objects

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Spatial Referencing Objects

`imref2d`	Reference 2-D image to world coordinates
`imref3d`	Reference 3-D image to world coordinates

Geometric Transformation Objects

`affine2d`	2-D affine geometric transformation
`affine3d`	3-D affine geometric transformation
`projective2d`	2-D projective geometric transformation

Topics

Register Images Interactively

Register Images Using Registration Estimator App

This example shows how to align a pair of images using the Registration Estimator app.

Techniques Supported by Registration Estimator App

Registration Estimator app provides algorithms for feature-based, intensity-based, and nonrigid registration.

Register Images Using Intensity-Based Optimization

Intensity-Based Automatic Image Registration

Intensity-based automatic image registration uses a similarity metric, an optimizer, and a transformation type to register two images iteratively.

Create an Optimizer and Metric for Intensity-Based Image Registration

Select an image metric and an optimizer suitable for either monomodal or multimodal images.

Use Phase Correlation as Preprocessing Step in Registration

Phase correlation is useful to estimate an initial transformation when images are severely misaligned.

Registering an Image Using Normalized Cross-Correlation

This example shows how to determine the translation needed to align a cropped subset of an image with the larger image.

Register Images Using Control Point Mapping

Control Point Registration

To determine the parameters of a transformation, you can pick corresponding points in a pair of images.

Geometric Transformation Types for Control Point Registration

Control point registration can infer the parameters for nonreflective similarity, affine, projective, polynomial, piecewise linear, and local weighted mean transformations.

Control Point Selection Procedure

To specify control points in a pair of images interactively, use the Control Point Selection Tool.

Use Cross-Correlation to Improve Control Point Placement

Fine-tune your control point selections using cross-correlation.