A comparison of affine region detectors

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 43-72

  Mikolajczyk, K ^a   Tuytelaars, T ^b   Schmid, C ^d   Zisserman, A ^a   Matas, J ^c   Schaffalitzky, F ^a   Kadir, T ^a   Van Gool, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Affine region detectors; Invariant image description; Local features; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

AFFINE REGION DETECTORS; INVARIANT IMAGE DESCRIPTION; LOCAL FEATURES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33244468369     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-005-3848-x     Document Type: Article

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