Radiation, Rotation and Scale Invariant Feature Descriptor for Multimodal Image Matching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06343v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:32:03 GMT
• Title: Radiation, Rotation and Scale Invariant Feature Descriptor for Multimodal Image Matching
• Abstract summary: We propose a radiation, rotation, and scale invariant (RRSI) feature descriptor for multimodal image matching.<n>RRSI supports the full rotation range from 0 to 360 degrees and scale factors up to four.<n>Its ability is validated on multimodal images from computer vision, remote sensing, and medical imaging.
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• Abstract: Multimodal image matching is a fundamental task for multi-source information fusion. However, geometric distortions and nonlinear radiometric differences (NRD) severely limit performance, especially under radiometric, rotation, and scale variations. To address this issue, we propose a radiation, rotation, and scale invariant (RRSI) feature descriptor. First, a dual-head regional sampling (DHRS) module simultaneously performs Cartesian and Log-Polar sampling on keypoint neighborhoods, retaining spatial structural properties while enhancing robustness to rotation and scale variations. We then jointly encode geometric and radiometric relations between multimodal images in a unified deep feature space, enabling feature encoding, interaction, and fusion across intra-modal, dual-head sampled, and inter-modal regions. Furthermore, we introduce a bidirectional cross-modal generative reconstruction constraint during training. By decoding implicit features into structural patches of the counterpart modality, this mechanism anchors modality-invariant geometric topologies without additional inference overhead. Experiments on optical-infrared and optical-SAR datasets demonstrate highly competitive matching performance and strong robustness to rotation and scale variations. RRSI supports the full rotation range from 0 to 360 degrees and scale factors up to four. Its generalization ability is further validated on multimodal images from computer vision, remote sensing, and medical imaging. The implementation will be made publicly available at https://github.com/yeyuanxin110/RRSI .

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