A Cognitive Sample Consensus Method for the Stitching of Drone-Based Aerial Images Supported by a Generative Adversarial Network for False Positive Reduction

Abstract

When using drone-based aerial images for panoramic image generation, the unstableness of the shooting angle often deteriorates the quality of the resulting image. To prevent these polluting effects from affecting the stitching process, this study proposes deep learning-based outlier rejection schemes that apply the architecture of the generative adversarial network (GAN) to reduce the falsely estimated hypothesis relating to a transform produced by a given baseline method, such as the random sample consensus method (RANSAC). To organize the training dataset, we obtain rigid transforms to resample the images via the operation of RANSAC for the correspondences produced by the scale-invariant feature transform descriptors. In the proposed method, the discriminator of GAN makes a pre-judgment of whether the estimated target hypothesis sample produced by RANSAC is true or false, and it recalls the generator to confirm the authenticity of the discriminator’s inference by comparing the differences between the generated samples and the target sample. We have tested the proposed method for drone-based aerial images and some miscellaneous images. The proposed method has been shown to have relatively stable and good performances even in receiver-operated tough conditions.

Methodology for the Development of Augmented Reality Applications: MeDARA. Drone Flight Case Study

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