Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Image selective smoothing and edge detection by nonlinear diffusion. II
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Feature Detection with Automatic Scale Selection
International Journal of Computer Vision
Linear Scale-Space has First been Proposed in Japan
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Robust Real-Time Face Detection
International Journal of Computer Vision
On the Axioms of Scale Space Theory
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints
International Journal of Computer Vision
A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Comparison of Affine Region Detectors
International Journal of Computer Vision
Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories
CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2
Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Feature-Based Deformable Surface Detection with Self-Occlusion Reasoning
International Journal of Computer Vision
Efficient and reliable schemes for nonlinear diffusion filtering
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
CVPR '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Context-aware features and robust image representations
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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In this paper, we introduce KAZE features, a novel multiscale 2D feature detection and description algorithm in nonlinear scale spaces. Previous approaches detect and describe features at different scale levels by building or approximating the Gaussian scale space of an image. However, Gaussian blurring does not respect the natural boundaries of objects and smoothes to the same degree both details and noise, reducing localization accuracy and distinctiveness. In contrast, we detect and describe 2D features in a nonlinear scale space by means of nonlinear diffusion filtering. In this way, we can make blurring locally adaptive to the image data, reducing noise but retaining object boundaries, obtaining superior localization accuracy and distinctiviness. The nonlinear scale space is built using efficient Additive Operator Splitting (AOS) techniques and variable conductance diffusion. We present an extensive evaluation on benchmark datasets and a practical matching application on deformable surfaces. Even though our features are somewhat more expensive to compute than SURF due to the construction of the nonlinear scale space, but comparable to SIFT, our results reveal a step forward in performance both in detection and description against previous state-of-the-art methods.