Interwoven Texture-Based Description of Interest Points in Images

Morteza Ghahremani, Yitian Zhao, Bernard Tiddeman, YONGHUAI LIU*

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Abstract

Local feature description is to assign a unique signature to a key-point such that it becomes
distinctive from the others regardless of changes in viewpoint, illumination, rotation, scale as
well as distortions and noise. This paper proposes a novel approach to construct such a descriptor.
For preserving both homogeneous and heterogeneous features of a given support region, we
interweave the texture information so that the key-point is more likely to be assigned a distinctive
signature and neighboring key-points will be less likely to share the same texture information.
The main idea behind our descriptor is to increase the areas of our observations in the given
scene while the length of the local support region is fixed. Gradient magnitude and divergence,
as measurement parameters of texture information, are applied to a group of pixels instead of
employing a pixel-wise strategy that make the descriptor more resistant to noise, distortions
and illumination variation. The required storage of the proposed descriptor is just 72 floats
and its computational complexity is much lower than those of existing ones. A comparative
study between the proposed method and the selected state-of-the-art ones over multiple publicly
accessible datasets with different characteristics shows its superiority, robustness and computational
efficiency under various geometric changes, illumination variation, distortions and noise.
The code and supplementary materials can be found at https://github.com/mogvision/InterTex-
Feature-Descriptor.
Original languageEnglish
Article number107821
JournalPattern Recognition
Volume113
Early online date16 Jan 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2021

Keywords

  • Interest point
  • Descriptive signature
  • Interwoven texture
  • Locality
  • Globality
  • Robustness

Research Groups

  • Visual Computing Lab

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