ORB: An efficient alternative to SIFT or SURF

E Rublee, V Rabaud, K Konolige… - … on computer vision, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
E Rublee, V Rabaud, K Konolige, G Bradski
2011 International conference on computer vision, 2011ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature matching is at the base of many computer vision problems, such as object
recognition or structure from motion. Current methods rely on costly descriptors for detection
and matching. In this paper, we propose a very fast binary descriptor based on BRIEF, called
ORB, which is rotation invariant and resistant to noise. We demonstrate through experiments
how ORB is at two orders of magnitude faster than SIFT, while performing as well in many
situations. The efficiency is tested on several real-world applications, including object …
Feature matching is at the base of many computer vision problems, such as object recognition or structure from motion. Current methods rely on costly descriptors for detection and matching. In this paper, we propose a very fast binary descriptor based on BRIEF, called ORB, which is rotation invariant and resistant to noise. We demonstrate through experiments how ORB is at two orders of magnitude faster than SIFT, while performing as well in many situations. The efficiency is tested on several real-world applications, including object detection and patch-tracking on a smart phone.
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