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PCA-SIFT: a more distinctive representation for local image descriptors
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Stable local feature detection and representation is a fundamental component of many image registration and object recognition algorithms. Mikolajczyk and Schmid (June 2003) recently evaluated a variety of approaches and identified the SIFT [D. G. Lowe, 1999] algorithm as being the most resistant to common image deformations. This paper examines (and improves upon) the local image descriptor used by SIFT. Like SIFT, our descriptors encode the salient aspects of the image gradient in the feature point's neighborhood; however, instead of using SIFT's smoothed weighted histograms, we apply principal components analysis (PCA) to the normalized gradient patch. Our experiments demonstrate that the PCA-based local descriptors are more distinctive, more robust to image deformations, and more compact than the standard SIFT representation. We also present results showing that using these descriptors in an image retrieval application results in increased accuracy and faster matching.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ke, Y., & Sukthankar, R.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Intel (United States) (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004.
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2004-11-12
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 506-513
- ISSN
- 1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2145072179
- Cited by
- 3,237
- References
- 19
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- FWCI
- 53.08
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Computer Science and Engineering
- Keywords
- PCA-SIFT, local image descriptors, SIFT, principal component analysis, local feature detection, image registration, object recognition, image retrieval, feature matching
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