The invention provides a single end-point characteristic description based
line segment matching method. According to the single end-point characteristic description based
line segment matching method, one end-point is used as a main
characteristic point and the other end-point is used as an auxiliary
characteristic point to construct a characteristic description unit; a specific
line segment direction is used as a reference direction of the characteristic unit and a characteristic descriptor is constructed and main
characteristic point matching is carried out; and by a matching relationship of any end-points of two line segments, the matching relationship of two line segments is determined, and finally,
verification of line segment matching
correctness is completed by geometric
verification of the matched characteristic points. According to the invention, the calculation complexity is greatly simplified and the matching speed is obviously improved. As long as any end-points or breakpoints on the corresponding line segments of two images can be matched, the two line segments or sub line segments of the line segments can be matched. The line segment direction is used as the reference direction of the descriptor, so that the
ambiguity problem of calculating the reference direction according to the neighborhood gradient is solved, the wrong match of two line segments, of which the end-points are close, but the directions are different, is eliminated and the robustness of the line segment matching is improved.