Discrete Curvature Representations for Noise Robust Image Corner Detection

Image corner detection is very important in the fields of image analysis and computer vision. Curvature calculation techniques are used in many contour-based corner detectors. We identify that existing calculation of curvature is sensitive to local variation and noise in the discrete domain and does...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - 28(2019), 9 vom: 17. Sept., Seite 4444-4459
Auteur principal: Zhang, Weichuan (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Sun, Changming, Breckon, Toby, Alshammari, Naif
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2019
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Sujets:Journal Article
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Résumé:Image corner detection is very important in the fields of image analysis and computer vision. Curvature calculation techniques are used in many contour-based corner detectors. We identify that existing calculation of curvature is sensitive to local variation and noise in the discrete domain and does not perform well when corners are closely located. In this paper, discrete curvature representations of single and double corner models are investigated and obtained. A number of model properties have been discovered, which help us detect corners on contours. It is shown that the proposed method has a high corner resolution (the ability to accurately detect neighboring corners), and a corresponding corner resolution constant is also derived. Meanwhile, this method is less sensitive to any local variations and noise on the contour; and false corner detection is less likely to occur. The proposed detector is compared with seven state-of-the-art detectors. Three test images with ground truths are used to assess the detection capability and localization accuracy of these methods in cases with noise-free and different noise levels; 24 images with various scenes without ground truths are used to evaluate their repeatability under affine transformation, JPEG compression, and noise degradations. The experimental results show that our proposed detector attains a better overall performance
Description:Date Revised 03.07.2019
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2019.2910655