Toyota Motor Europe

K.u. Leuven Research & Development

Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich

Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich

Toyota Motor Europe Nv/sa

Toyota Motor Europe Nv

Tinne Tuytelaars

Ryuji Funayama

Hiromichi Yanagihara

Luc Van Gool

Herbert Bay

Ryuki Funayama

A method for operating on images is described for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale-invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description.

Robust interest point detector and descriptor

Methods and apparatus for operating on images are described, in particular methods and apparatus for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale-invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description. The present invention can provide improved or alternative apparatus and methods for matching interest points either in the same image or in a different image. The present invention can provide alternative or improved software for implementing any of the methods of the invention. The present invention can provide alternative or improved data structures created by multiple filtering operations to generate a plurality of filtered images as well as data structures for storing the filtered images themselves, e.g. as stored in memory or transmitted through a network. The present invention can provide alternative or improved data structures including descriptors of interest points in images, e.g. as stored in memory or transmitted through a network as well as data structures associating such descriptors with an original copy of the image or an image derived therefrom, e.g. a thumbnail image.

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