A Representative Local Region Detector Based On Color-Contrast-MSER

In order to extract representative local invariant regions in textured natural images, we propose a Color-Contrast-MSER (CCM) detector with color-contrast pixel ranking, which can reduce the number of meaningless regions extracted from backgrounds. The main contributions are threefold: (1) In contrast with the original MSER[3] which adopts intensity pixel ranking, we develop a new pixel ranking mechanism based on color contrast analysis. (2) In this paper, the pixel ranking value of each pixel is defined as the color contrast between a kernel-sized window and the background. Therefore we propose an adaptive background scale selection mechanism that simulates the background color distribution as the benchmark for color contrast. (3) The experimental results demonstrate that compared with the original MSER detector[3], our Color-Contrast-MSER (CCM) detector can extract more representative local regions with competitive repeatability score at only 50% computational time and 10% memory cost.

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