Weighted ICP Algorithm for Alignment of Stars from Scanned Astronomical Photographic Plates
ACM Computing Classification System (1998): I.2.8, I.2.10, I.5.1, J.2. Given the coarse celestial coordinates of the centre of a plate scan and the field of view, we are looking for a mapping between the stars extracted from the image and the stars from a catalogue, where the stars from both sources are represented by their stellar magnitudes and coordinates, relatively to the image centre. In a previous work we demonstrated the application of Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm...