One of the major challenges related to image registration is the estimation of large motions without prior knowledge. This paper presents a Fourier based approach that estimates large translation, scale and rotation motions. The algorithm uses the pseudo-polar transform to achieve substantial improved approximations of the polor and log-polar Fourier transforms of an image. Thus, rotation and scale changes are reduced to translations which are estimated using phase correlation. By utilizing the pseudo-polar grid we increase the performance (accuracy, speed, robustness) of the registration algorithms. Scales up to 4 and arbitrary rotation angles can be robustly recovered, compared to a maximum scaling of 2 recovered by the current state-of-the-art algorithms. The algorithm utilizes only 1D FFT calculations whose overall complexity is significantly lower than prior works. Experimental results demosntrate the applicability of these algorithms.