Image Feature Detectors and Descriptors : Foundations and Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Detection and Description of Image Features: An Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Image Features Detection, Description and Matching....Pages 11-45
A Review of Image Interest Point Detectors: From Algorithms to FPGA Hardware Implementations....Pages 47-74
Image Features Extraction, Selection and Fusion for Computer Vision....Pages 75-107
Image Feature Extraction Acceleration....Pages 109-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Satellite Image Matching and Registration: A Comparative Study Using Invariant Local Features....Pages 135-171
Redundancy Elimination in Video Summarization....Pages 173-202
A Real Time Dactylology Based Feature Extractrion for Selective Image Encryption and Artificial Neural Network....Pages 203-226
Spectral Reflectance Images and Applications....Pages 227-254
Image Segmentation Using an Evolutionary Method Based on Allostatic Mechanisms....Pages 255-279
Image Analysis and Coding Based on Ordinal Data Representation....Pages 281-303
Intelligent Detection of Foveal Zone from Colored Fundus Images of Human Retina Through a Robust Combination of Fuzzy-Logic and Active Contour Model....Pages 305-344
Registration of Digital Terrain Images Using Nondegenerate Singular Points....Pages 345-366
Visual Speech Recognition with Selected Boundary Descriptors....Pages 367-383
Application of Texture Features for Classification of Primary Benign and Primary Malignant Focal Liver Lesions ....Pages 385-409
Application of Statistical Texture Features for Breast Tissue Density Classification....Pages 411-435
Back Matter....Pages 437-438