Image Matching Using Generalized Scale-Space Interest Points

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-36

  Lindeberg, Tony ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Computer vision; Feature detection; Interest point; Matching; Object recognition; Scale invariance; Scale linking; Scale selection; Scale space

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DEFORMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; LAPLACE EQUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; VISION;

AFFINE INVARIANCE; FEATURE DETECTION; INTEREST POINT; MATCHING; SCALE INVARIANCE; SCALE LINKING; SCALE SELECTION; SCALE SPACES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84939999793     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: 15737683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-014-0541-0     Document Type: Article

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