A comparative experimental study of image feature detectors and descriptors

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 443-466

  Mukherjee, Dibyendu ^a   JonathanWu Q M ^a   Wang, Guanghui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Feature descriptors; Feature detectors; Local features

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; FEATURE DETECTION AND MATCHING; FEATURE DETECTOR; IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS; LOCAL FEATURE; VARIATION OF PARAMETERS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84937761422     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-015-0679-9     Document Type: Article

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