Multiscale corner detection of gray level images based on log-gabor wavelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 868-875

  Gao, Xinting ^a,b,c   Sattar, Farook ^a,b   Venkateswarlu, Ronda ^d  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Corner detection; Log gabor wavelet transform; Orientation information; Second moment matrix; Stereo matching

Indexed keywords

CORNER DETECTION; LOG-GABOR WAVELET TRANSFORM; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; SECOND MOMENT MATRIX; STEREO MATCHING;

EDGE DETECTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE SENSORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547402165     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2007.897473     Document Type: Article

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