A comparison of 3D interest point descriptors with application to airport baggage object detection in complex CT imagery

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2420-2436

  Flitton, Greg ^a   Breckon, Toby P ^a   Megherbi, Najla ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D feature descriptors; 3D SIFT; CT baggage scan; CT object recognition; Object recognition; Threat detection

Indexed keywords

3D SIFT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT BAGGAGE SCAN; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; POINT DESCRIPTORS; THREAT DETECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876702684     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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