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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</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-archives-XLI-B3-143-2016</article-id>
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<article-title>DENSE IMAGE MATCHING WITH TWO STEPS OF EXPANSION</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Zuxun</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>He</surname>
<given-names>Jia’nan</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Shan</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>Duan</surname>
<given-names>Yansong</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, No.129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>09</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLI-B3</volume>
<fpage>143</fpage>
<lpage>149</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2016 Zuxun Zhang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Dense image matching is a basic and key point of photogrammetry and computer version. In this paper, we provide a method derived
from the seed-and-grow method, whose basic procedure consists of the following: First, the seed and feature points are extracted, after
which the feature points around every seed point are found in the first step of expansion. The corresponding information on these
feature points needs to be determined. This is followed by the second step of expansion, in which the seed points around the feature
point are found and used to estimate the possible matching patch. Finally, the matching results are refined through the traditional
correlation-based method. Our proposed method operates on two frames without geometric constraints, specifically, epipolar
constraints. It (1) can smoothly operate on frame, line array, natural scene, and even synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and (2) at
the same time guarantees computing efficiency as a result of the seed-and-grow concept and the computational efficiency of the
correlation-based method.</p>
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