GPU-ASIFT: A fast fully affine-invariant feature extraction algorithm

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 474-481

  Codreanu, Valeriu ^a   Dong, Feng ^b   Liu, Baoquan ^b   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^a   Williams, David ^a   Yang, Po ^b   Yasar, Burhan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Rotasoft Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer Vision; GPU; High performance computing

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; GPU; GPU CLUSTERS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IMAGE FEATURES; MATCHING PERFORMANCE; MULTI-GPU;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 84888022070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCSim.2013.6641456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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