Detectors and Descriptors

This chapter contains recipes for:

  • Finding corners in an image - Harris and FAST
  • Selecting good corners in an image for tracking
  • Drawing keypoints, descriptors, and matches
  • Detecting scale invariant keypoints
  • Computing descriptors for image keypoints - SURF, BRIEF, and ORB
  • Matching techniques for finding correspondences between descriptors
  • Finding reliable matches - cross-check and ratio test
  • Model-based filtering of matches - RANSAC
  • BoW model for constructing global image descriptors

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