Description: In this paper, a novel scale- and rotation-invariant interest point detector and descriptor, coined SURF (Speeded Up Robust
Features) is presented. It approximates or even outperforms previously proposed
schemes with respect to repeatability, distinctiveness, and robustness, yet
can be computed and compared much faster.
This is achieved by relying on integral images for image convolutions by building on the strengths of the leading existing detectors and descriptors (in casu, using a Hessian matrix-based measure for the detector, and a
distribution-based descriptor) and by simplifying these methods to the
essential. This leads to a combination of novel detection, description, and
matching steps. The paper presents experimental results on a standard
evaluation set, as well as on imagery obtained in the context of a real-life
object recognition application. Both show SURF’s strong performance.
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