Multiscale corner detection of contour images using wavelet transform

Xinting Gao; Farook Sattar; Venkarteswarlu Ronda; Azhar Quddus

doi:10.1117/1.2076968

1 October 2005 Multiscale corner detection of contour images using wavelet transform

Xinting Gao, Farook Sattar, Venkarteswarlu Ronda, Azhar Quddus

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 14, Issue 4, 040502 (October 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2076968

Abstract

A new multiscale corner detection method is proposed based on dyadic wavelet transform (WT) of the orientation function of a contour image. As the decomposition of the dyadic WT is complete and its scales are sparse, all the scales are defined as natural scales for corner detection. The points that are wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) at different scales are taken as corner candidates. For each corner candidate, the sum of the corresponding normalized WTMM at all the natural scales is used as significance measure of the "cornerness". The utilization of the complete information makes the performance of the proposed detector independent to the type of input images. The decomposition scales of the WT are restricted by the contour length, which makes the algorithm adaptable for both long contours and short contours. Both subjective and objective evaluation illustrate better performance of the proposed corner detector compared to the conventional methods.

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Xinting Gao, Farook Sattar, Venkarteswarlu Ronda, and Azhar Quddus "Multiscale corner detection of contour images using wavelet transform," Journal of Electronic Imaging 14(4), 040502 (1 October 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2076968

Published: 1 October 2005

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Corner detection

Wavelet transforms

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Detection and tracking algorithms

Wavelets

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