Rotation-invariant fast features for large-scale recognition and real-time tracking

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel Takacs;Vijay Chandrasekhar;Sam Tsai;David Chen;Radek Grzeszczuk;Bernd Girod

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft, United States and Stanford University, United States;Stanford University, United States;Stanford University, United States;Stanford University, United States;Microsoft, United States;Stanford University, United States

  • Venue:
  • Image Communication
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present an end-to-end feature description pipeline which uses a novel interest point detector and rotation-invariant fast feature (RIFF) descriptors. The proposed RIFF algorithm is 15x faster than SURF [1] while producing large-scale retrieval results that are comparable to SIFT [2]. Such high-speed features benefit a range of applications from mobile augmented reality (MAR) to web-scale image retrieval and analysis. In particular, RIFF enables unified tracking and recognition for MAR.