A Fast Radial Symmetry Transform for Detecting Points of Interest

  • Authors:
  • Gareth Loy;Alexander Zelinsky

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part I
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A new feature detection technique is presented that utilises local radial symmetry to identify regions of interest within a scene. This transform is significantly faster than existing techniques using radial symmetry and offers the possibility of real-time implementation on a standard processor. The new transformis shown to perform well on a wide variety of images and its performance is tested against leading techniques from the literature. Both as a facial feature detector and as a generic region of interest detector the new transformis seen to offer equal or superior performance to contemporary techniques whilst requiring drastically less computational effort.