Evaluation of Features Detectors and Descriptors based on 3D Objects

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Moreels;Pietro Perona

  • Affiliations:
  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA 91125;California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA 91125

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We explore the performance of a number of popular feature detectors and descriptors in matching 3D object features across viewpoints and lighting conditions. To this end we design a method, based on intersecting epipolar constraints, for providing ground truth correspondence automatically. These correspondences are based purely on geometric information, and do not rely on the choice of a specific feature appearance descriptor. We test detector-descriptor combinations on a database of 100 objects viewed from 144 calibrated viewpoints under three different lighting conditions. We find that the combination of Hessian-affine feature finder and SIFT features is most robust to viewpoint change. Harris-affine combined with SIFT and Hessian-affine combined with shape context descriptors were best respectively for lighting change and change in camera focal length. We also find that no detector-descriptor combination performs well with viewpoint changes of more than 25---30驴.