A Novel Keypoint Detection in Wavelet Pyramid Space

Keypoint detection is important for object recognition, image retrieval, mosaicing etc., and has attracted ample research. In this paper, we propose a novel wavelet-based detector (NWBD) based on the previous researches on keypoint detection. NWBD is performed in wavelet pyramid space, it extracts the local extrema of the energy map computed by intra-scale coefficient product (ISCP) as the candidate keypoint, and then discards some points by Hessian matrix. In the experiments, the novel detector was compared with Harris detector and SIFT detector by the evaluation of repeatability, and it achieved better performance for some scenes in the database provided by Mikolajcyzk and Schmid, such as wall, trees, and graffiti.

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