The invention relates to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle load
system image registration, in particular to a visible light and
infrared image registration fusion method for an unmanned aerial vehicle photoelectric
turret. Comprising the following steps: measuring and calibrating a relationship between a visible light camera
focal length and a visible light Y-direction
field angle on the ground, recording the relationship between the
field angle and the
focal length as a file, and storing the file on a
camera control panel; the
camera control panel controls the movement of the visible light camera through a PID
algorithm until the
field angle of a
single pixel of the visible light image is matched with the field angle of a
single pixel of the
infrared image; extracting different-
source image descriptors, matching the different-
source image descriptors, storing the projection relation of each pixel coordinate as a matrix A, and calling to complete registration; and calculating the local contrast and information entropy of the visible light image and the
infrared image, dynamically adjusting the fusion proportion, and generating a registration
fusion image. The method has the advantages that simple calibration on the ground is only needed; and after zooming, a registration
algorithm is operated on an airborne computer, and the efficiency and accuracy of
feature matching are improved in combination with a multi-scale descriptor.