drift correction

Align_slices in stack utilized the template matching function cvMatch_Template to do slice registration(alignment) based on a selected landmark.
This function will try to find the landmark or the most similar image pattern in every slice and translate each slice so that the landmark pattern will be the same position throughout the whole stack. It could be used to fix the drift of a time-lapse image stacks.

Source code: link

Input data: image stack
output data: image stack

Rigid registration of time series in 3D. A video tutorial is available (be careful of sounds, the video automatically starts!): [Sample Drift Correction Following 4D Confocal Time-lapse Imaging](http://www.jove.com/video/51086/sample-drift-correction-following-4d-co…)

This plugin stabilizes jittery image stacks using the Lucas-Kanade algorithm. It supports both grayscale and color images.

See also this tweet