public class SIFT_Align
extends Object
implements ij.plugin.PlugIn, KeyListener

Align a stack consecutively using automatically extracted robust landmark correspondences. The plugin uses the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) by David Lowe \cite{Lowe04} and the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) by Fishler and Bolles \citet{FischlerB81} to identify landmark correspondences. It identifies a rigid transformation for the second of two slices that maps the correspondences of the second optimally to those of the first. BibTeX:

 @article{Lowe04,
   author    = {David G. Lowe},
   title     = {Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints},
   journal   = {International Journal of Computer Vision},
   year      = {2004},
   volume    = {60},
   number    = {2},
   pages     = {91--110},
 }
 @article{FischlerB81,
         author    = {Martin A. Fischler and Robert C. Bolles},
   title     = {Random sample consensus: a paradigm for model fitting with applications to image analysis and automated cartography},
   journal   = {Communications of the ACM},
   volume    = {24},
   number    = {6},
   year      = {1981},
   pages     = {381--395},
   publisher = {ACM Press},
   address   = {New York, NY, USA},
   issn      = {0001-0782},
   doi       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/358669.358692},
 }