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A performance evaluation of local descriptors

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Mikolajczyk, K., Schmid, C.·2005·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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In this paper, we compare the performance of descriptors computed for local interest regions, as, for example, extracted by the Harris-Affine detector [Mikolajczyk, K and Schmid, C, 2004]. Many different descriptors have been proposed in the literature. It is unclear which descriptors are more appropriate and how their performance depends on the interest region detector. The descriptors should be distinctive and at the same time robust to changes in viewing conditions as well as to errors of the detector. Our evaluation uses as criterion recall with respect to precision and is carried out for different image transformations. We compare shape context [Belongie, S, et al., April 2002], steerable filters [Freeman, W and Adelson, E, Setp. 1991], PCA-SIFT [Ke, Y and Sukthankar, R, 2004], differential invariants [Koenderink, J and van Doorn, A, 1987], spin images [Lazebnik, S, et al., 2003], SIFT [Lowe, D. G., 1999], complex filters [Schaffalitzky, F and Zisserman, A, 2002], moment invariants [Van Gool, L, et al., 1996], and cross-correlation for different types of interest regions. We also propose an extension of the SIFT descriptor and show that it outperforms the original method. Furthermore, we observe that the ranking of the descriptors is mostly independent of the interest region detector and that the SIFT-based descriptors perform best. Moments and steerable filters show the best performance among the low dimensional descriptors.

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Authors
Mikolajczyk, K., & Schmid, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Published
2005-10
Volume
27
Issue
10
Pages
1615-1630
ISSN
0162-8828 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2177274842
Cited by
6,723
References
52
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FWCI
288.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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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 › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Object Detection Techniques
Keywords
local descriptors, SIFT, PCA-SIFT, shape context, steerable filters, spin images, moment invariants, differential invariants, complex filters, cross correlation function, descriptor robustness, image transformation
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Image Enhancement, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Software, Software Validation, Models, Statistical, Information Storage and Retrieval

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