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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-III-3-423-2016</article-id>
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<article-title>CONSISTENT TONAL CORRECTION FOR MULTI-VIEW REMOTE SENSING IMAGE
MOSAICKING</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xia</surname>
<given-names>Menghan</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yao</surname>
<given-names>Jian</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Li</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xie</surname>
<given-names>Renping</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Yahui</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>06</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<volume>III-3</volume>
<fpage>423</fpage>
<lpage>431</lpage>
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<license license-type="open-access">
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<p>In this paper, we propose an effective approach for consistent tonal correction of multi-view images during mosaicking. Our method
is specifically designed for mosaicking multi-view remote sensing images acquired under different conditions and/or presenting
inconsistent tone. To avoid the correlation of three channels in original &lt;i&gt;RGB&lt;/i&gt; images, we convert them to an orthogonal color space &lt;i&gt;l&lt;/i&gt;&amp;alpha;&amp;beta;
in advance. First of all, the tones of sequential images are transferred from an example image reasonably via our improved color transfer
algorithm. Secondly, the more refined adjustments take place in the luminance channel &lt;i&gt;l&lt;/i&gt; and color channels &amp;alpha; and &amp;beta;, independently. In
the luminance channel, the global gain compensation is applied to minimize the luminance difference between pairs of images by the
least square estimator. In the color channels, the specifically designed stepwise histogram adjustments make all the images consistent
tone as a whole, including the initial correction transferring the color characteristics of the automatically selected reference subset to
other images in an optimal order and the consistent correction readjusting each image by referring all their neighbors based on the
overlaps. Thirdly, we creatively transfer the original structures to the previously corrected images by a local linear model, which can
preserve the local structures of the original images. Finally, several groups of convincing experiments on both challenged synthetic and
real data demonstrate the validity of our proposed approach.</p>
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