A comprehensive review of current local features for computer vision

Neurocomputing

Volumn 71, Issue 10-12, 2008, Pages 1771-1787

  Li, Jing ^a   Allinson, Nigel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corner detectors; Derivative based descriptors; Distribution based descriptors; Feature descriptors; Feature detectors; Filter based descriptors; Local features; Region detectors; Textons

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTS;

CORNER DETECTORS; DERIVATIVE-BASED DESCRIPTORS; DISTRIBUTION-BASED DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE DETECTORS; FILTER-BASED DESCRIPTORS; REGION DETECTORS;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR BASED DESCRIPTOR; COMPLEX FILTERS; DERIVATIVE BASED DESCRIPTOR; DESCRIPTOR OF SIFT; DIFFERENCE OF GAUSSIAN OPERATOR AND SIFT DETECTOR; DISTRIBUTION BASED FILTERS; FILTER BASED DESCRIPTOR; GABORS FILTERS; GRADIENT LOCATION AND ORIENTATION HISTOGRAM; HARRIS AFFINE AND HESSIAN AFFINE; HARRIS CORNER DETECTOR; HIGH SPEED CORNER DETECTOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INTENSITY BASED REGION DETECTOR; MORAVEC CORNER DETECTOR; PCA SIFT DESCRIPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; ROTATION INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM; SALIENT REGION DETECTOR; SHAPE CONTEXT; SPIN IMAGE; STEERABLE FILTERS; SUSAN DETECTOR; TEXTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRAJKOVIC OPERATOR; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 44649107590     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2007.11.032     Document Type: Article

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