This paper presents a novel method for interest region description. We adopted the idea that the appearance of an interest region can be well characterized by the distribution of its local features. The most well-known descriptor built on this idea is the SIFT descriptor that uses gradient as the local feature. Thus far, existing texture features are not widely utilized in the context of region...

SIFT Feature with Relevance Feedback for Image Retrieval Written by Administrator Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:52 Last Updated Monday, 21 March 2011 07:32 In this paper, we used the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature for image retrieval. SIFT descriptors are invariant to image scaling, transformation,rotation and partially invariant to illumination changes and affine, gives the loc...

Recently, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm is widely used in feature extraction and image matching. However, it has some defects, such as large volume of computational data and low efficiency of image matching. To address these defects, adaptive feature extraction and image matching based on Haar Wavelet Transform and SIFT (AHWT-SIFT) is proposed in this paper. In view of the ...

Local descriptors have been wildly explored and utilized in image retrieval because of their transformation invariance. In this paper, we propose an improved set of features extarcted from local descriptors for more effective and efficient image retrieval. We propose a salient region selection method to detect human’s Region Of Interest (hROI) from an image, which incorporates the Canny edge al...

2 User reference: the sift function 1 2.1 Scale space parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Detector parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3 Descriptor parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.4 Direct access to SIFT components . . . . . . . ....

Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry, SIFT-MS, a relatively new gas/vapour phase analytical method, is derived from the much earlier selected ion flow tube, SIFT, used for the study of gas phase ion-molecule reactions. Both the SIFT and SIFT-MS techniques were conceived and developed in the UK, the former at Birmingham University, the latter at Keele University along with the complementary ...

This note is devoted to the mathematical arguments proving that Lowe’s Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT [23]), a very successful image matching method, is indeed similarity invariant. The mathematical proof is given under the assumption that the gaussian smoothing performed by SIFT gives aliasing free sampling. The validity of this main assumption is confirmed by a rigorous experimental ...