Control Point Registration
The Image Processing Toolbox™ software provides tools to support point mapping to determine the parameters of the transformation required to bring an image into alignment with another image. In point mapping, you pick points in a pair of images that identify the same feature or landmark in the images. Then, a geometric mapping is inferred from the positions of these control points.
Note
You may need to perform several iterations of this process, experimenting with different types of transformations, before you achieve a satisfactory result. Sometimes, you can perform successive registrations, removing gross global distortions first, and then removing smaller local distortions in subsequent passes.
The following figure provides a graphic illustration of this process. See Register Images with Projection Distortion Using Control Points for an extended example.
See Also
cpcorr | cpselect | fitgeotrans | imwarp