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I am working on a project in which the two images will be checked for similarity like 'Google Image Search by image'. I searched through Google and also on various sites including stackoverflow and learnt about various techniques like histogram, sift, fourier transform, pixel grabbing, etc. The things are too complex for me to understand being a beginner in this field. My questions are: From where can i get started?? Is there any book available or a site which give tutorials for learning about how to actually use these techniques? Are there new techniques which can be implemented for this

I am wondering whether there is any open source or free library for Image feature extraction with Javascript? I am developing an app where I need to use an algorithm like SIFT. It is tough to implement in JS, and I couldn't find a good SIFT implementation in JS. I thought of implementing a feature extraction library in JS if one doesn't exist. Please can anybody help me to find a good solution or guide me to write one from scratch. Thanks, Keshan. I'm not familiar with implementation for sift descriptor in JS, yet, it might worth starting with a simple HOG descriptor which has a great

I'm doing project in OpenCV on object detection which consists of matching the object in template image with the reference image. Using SIFT algorithm the features get acurately detected and matched but I want a rectagle around the matched features My algorithm uses the KD-Tree est ean First technique to get the matches If you want a rectangle around the detected object, here you have code example with exactly that. You just need to draw a rectangle around the homography H. Hope it helps. Good luck. I use the following code, adapted from the SURF algoritm in OpenCV (modules/features2d/src/surf

I'm looking for some basic SIFT implementation in MATLAB. I need to write it from first principles. Also, I'm looking for something which explains whats going on in the program. Vedali's code and David Lowe's code just go over my head. If you are a Matlab user, you must know this excelent site web : Matlab File Exchange There, you will find the following project : Feature Points In Image I think this project will fully answer to all your questions about sift. It also posible to have a look of the SIFT implementation of the opencv library. Then, you can find a matlab implementation by the SIFT

Does opencv allows to use ASIFT ? http://www.ipol.im/pub/algo/my_affine_sift/ The creator published the c++ so I believe it wouldn't be so hard to implement it into opencv What do you mean by Does opencv allows to use ASIFT ? At this moment, ASIFT is not available in OpenCV directly, but it should be a no-brainer to connect the code provided by the ASIFT authors to OpenCV. Probably all you'll have to do is to convert the OpenCV cv::Mat to some specific image format, by accessing Mat::data pointer. If you are worried about licensing terms, you should contact the ASIFT authors. OpenCV is free to

I have an image of the target logo that I am trying to use to find target logos in other images. I am currently running two different detection algorithms to help me detect any logos on the image. The first detection I use is Histogram based in which I search the image for a general area on screen where the colors are very similar. From there I run SIFT to further get the object that I am looking for. This works on most logos however the Target logo that I have isn't even picking up and keypoints in the logo. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help locate some keypoints in the

for my master thesis, i am running some test on the SIFT SURF en FAST algoritms for logo detection on smartphones. when i simply time the detection, description en matching for some methods i get the following results. For a SURF detector and SURF descriptor: 180 keypoints found 1,994 seconds keypoint calculation time (SURF) 4,516 seconds description time (SURF) 0.282 seconds matching time (SURF) when I use a FAST detector in stead of the SURF detector 319 keypoints found 0.023 seconds keypoint calculation time (FAST) 1.295 seconds description time (SURF) 0.397 seconds matching time (SURF) The