Title :
Picking the best DAISY
Author :
Winder, Simon ; Gang Hua ; Brown, Michael
Author_Institution :
Microsoft Res., Redmond, WA, USA
Abstract :
Local image descriptors that are highly discriminative, computational efficient, and with low storage footprint have long been a dream goal of computer vision research. In this paper, we focus on learning such descriptors, which make use of the DAISY configuration and are simple to compute both sparsely and densely. We develop a new training set of match/non-match image patches which improves on previous work. We test a wide variety of gradient and steerable filter based configurations and optimize over all parameters to obtain low matching errors for the descriptors. We further explore robust normalization, dimension reduction and dynamic range reduction to increase the discriminative power and yet reduce the storage requirement of the learned descriptors. All these enable us to obtain highly efficient local descriptors: e.g, 13.2% error at 13 bytes storage per descriptor, compared with 26.1% error at 128 bytes for SIFT.
Keywords :
computer vision; filtering theory; image matching; DAISY configuration; computer vision; dimension reduction; dynamic range reduction; local feature matching; local image descriptors; match image patches; nonmatch image patches; steerable filter; Computational efficiency; Dynamic range; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Image storage; Matched filters; Pipelines; Principal component analysis; Robustness; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Miami, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3992-8
DOI :
10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206839