Image region correspondence by structural similarity

Presents an approach for matching regions in images. Images are segmented into regions and are individually described by adjacency relations using region tables. The matching procedure is composed of two processes, global structural matching and local region matching. The global structural matching process selects a pair of region tables in two images which have the best resemblance between their adjacencies; the local region matching process matches regions which are surrounding the best matched region, and it has the ability to tolerate inconsistency of region segmentation to some extent.< >