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We present a general novel image descriptor based on higherorder differential geometry and investigate the effect of common descriptor choices. Our investigation is twofold in that we develop a jet-based descriptor and perform a comparative evaluation with current state-of-the-art descriptors on the recently released DTU Robot dataset. We demonstrate how the use of higher-order image structures enables us to reduce the descriptor dimensionality while still achieving very good performance. The descriptors are tested in a variety of scenarios including large changes in scale, viewing angle and lighting. We show that the proposed jet-based descriptor is superior to state-of-the-art for DoG interest points and show competitive performance for the other tested interest points.
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Larsen, A.B.L., Darkner, S., Dahl, A.L., Pedersen, K.S. (2012). Jet-Based Local Image Descriptors. In: Fitzgibbon, A., Lazebnik, S., Perona, P., Sato, Y., Schmid, C. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. ECCV 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7574. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33712-3_46
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