Description of Local Singularities for Image Registration

  • Authors:
  • Julien Ros;Christophe Laurent

  • Affiliations:
  • France Telecom R&D - TECH/IRIS/CIM, France;France Telecom - RO&SI/DSIS/SIFAC, France

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 04
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recently, it has been shown that gradient-based meth- ods are the most powerful approaches for describing the lo- cal content of digital images in the neighborhood of salient points. In practice, salient points are always located on image singularities whatever the detector used. In this pa- per, we show that a more efficient mathematical notion can be used to describe singularities: the H篓older exponent. We propose here to conjointly use the H篓older exponents and the direction of minimal regularity of the bidimensionnal signal singularities to compute a signature describing precisely a region of interest centered on an interest point. H篓older ex- ponents are estimated thanks to the foveal wavelets theory and the resulting descriptor is shown to be more efficient than classical SIFT and PCA-SIFT descriptors in the case of an image registration application.