Boundary Based Corner Detecion and Localization Using New 'Cornerity' Index: A Robust Approach

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  • CRV '04 Proceedings of the 1st Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
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  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel boundary based corner detection algorithm isproposed. The proposed algorithm is computationally fast andefficient. The proposed method computes an expected point forevery point on a boundary curve. An expected point correspondingto a point on the boundary curve is defined to be the geometricalcentroid of the symmetrical boundary segment of size 2k+1, forsome integer k 0, within the neighborhood of the point inconsideration. A new ýcornerityý index for a point on the boundarycurve is defined to be the distance between the point and itscorresponding expected point. The larger the cornerity index, thestronger is the evidence that the boundary point is a corner point. Aset of rules is worked out to guide the process of locating truecorner points. The conducted experiments establish that theproposed approach is invariant to image transformations viz.,rotation, translation and scaling.