The Design and Use of Steerable Filters
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Image Representation Using 2D Gabor Wavelets
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Local Grayvalue Invariants for Image Retrieval
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Modern Information Retrieval
Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Multiresolution Gray-Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification with Local Binary Patterns
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part I
Matching Widely Separated Views Based on Affine Invariant Regions
International Journal of Computer Vision
Scale & Affine Invariant Interest Point Detectors
International Journal of Computer 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
Scalable Recognition with a Vocabulary Tree
CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2
CSIFT: A SIFT Descriptor with Color Invariant Characteristics
CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2
Selection and Fusion of Color Models for Image Feature Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Improving the SIFT descriptor with smooth derivative filters
Pattern Recognition Letters
A new framework for feature descriptor based on SIFT
Pattern Recognition Letters
ASIFT: A New Framework for Fully Affine Invariant Image Comparison
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
A zernike moment phase-based descriptor for local image representation and matching
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
WLD: A Robust Local Image Descriptor
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
PCA-SIFT: a more distinctive representation for local image descriptors
CVPR'04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE computer society conference on Computer vision and pattern recognition
Discriminative Learning of Local Image Descriptors
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
New colour SIFT descriptors for image classification with applications to biometrics
International Journal of Biometrics
Robust 3D face recognition based on resolution invariant features
Pattern Recognition Letters
CENTRIST: A Visual Descriptor for Scene Categorization
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
MIFT: a mirror reflection invariant feature descriptor
ACCV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part II
Combining color and shape information for illumination-viewpoint invariant object recognition
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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Constructing proper descriptors for interest points in images is a critical aspect for local features related tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Although the SIFT descriptor has been proven to perform better than the other existing local descriptors, it does not gain sufficient distinctiveness and robustness in image match especially in the case of affine and mirror transformations, in which many mismatches could occur. This paper presents an improvement to the SIFT descriptor for image matching and retrieval. The framework of the proposed descriptor consists of the following steps: normalizing elliptical neighboring region, transforming to affine scale-space, improving the SIFT descriptor with polar histogram orientation bin, as well as integrating the mirror reflection invariant. A comparative evaluation of different descriptors is carried out showing that the present approach provides better results than the existing methods.