Geometry and construction of straight lines in log-polar images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 196-207

  Schindler, Konrad ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epipolar matching; Feature detection; Line geometry; Log polar images

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EPIPOLAR MATCHING; FEATURE DETECTION; LINE GEOMETRY; LOG-POLAR IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33747163001     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2005.07.012     Document Type: Article

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