Image description with features that summarize

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 446-458

  Corso, J J ^a   Hager, G D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature detector; Feature space; Image matching; Interest point operator; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

BLOBWORLD; CONTINUOUS SCALE; DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE DETECTIONS; FEATURE DETECTOR; FEATURE SPACE; IMAGE CONTENTS; IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS; IMAGE REGIONS; INTEREST POINT OPERATOR; LOCAL EXTREMUM; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE GEOMETRIES; SEGMENTATION; SIFT FEATURES;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 61349141838     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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