Modern to Historic Image Matching: ORB/SURF an Effective Matching Technique

Matching modern to historical images requires a special effort in the sense of dealing with historical photos. While there are many robust matching techniques which are vectoror binary-based that perform effectively on modern images, they are not accurate on historic photos. Photos of different landmarks were gathered for a long timeline taken in different conditions of illuminations, position, and weather. Images were matched using standard vector-based matching techniques SIFT and SURF and a binary-based technique: ORB. Match results of these sets of images were recorded and analyzed. Generally, these results shows successful matching of the modern digital images, while matching historic photos to modern ones shows poor matching results. A novel application of a hybrid ORB/SURF matching technique was applied in matching modern to historic images showed more accurate results and performs more effectively.