A Fast Corner Detector Based on the Chord-to-Point Distance Accumulation Technique

The previously proposed contour-based multi-scale corner detector based on the chord-to-point distance accumulation (CPDA) technique has proved its superior robustness over many other single- and multi-scale detectors. However, the original CPDA detector is computationally expensive since it calculates the CPDA discrete curvature on each point of the curve. The proposed improvement obtains a set of probable candidate points before the CPDA curvature estimation. The CPDA curvature is estimated on these chosen candidate points only. Consequently, the improved CPDA detector becomes faster, while retaining a similar robustness to the original CPDA detector.

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