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Stable Wave Detector of Blobs in Images

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Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2006)

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Stable Wave Detector (SWD) is a new multiscale landmark detector in the intensity image. SWD belongs to a group of interest-point-like operators aiming at detecting repeatedly distinguished entities regardless of their semantics. The speed and the robustness of landmark detection and the precision of landmark localization are main issues. The target landmarks are blobs which correspond to local maxima/minima of intensity (positive and negative peaks). The detector is based on the phase of the first harmonic wave in the moving window. The localization is a result of an integral transformation rather than a derivative. Thus, the blob detector is inherently robust to noise. The SWD provides subpixel localization of blobs together with the estimate of its precision, the measure of the strength/significance and the estimate of the size/scale for each blob.

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  1. RS Dynamics s.r.o., Starochodovská 1359, Prague 4, 149 00, Czech Republic

    Jan Dupač

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department for Cybernetics, Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University, Karlovo náměstí 13, Prague 2, 121 35, Czech Republic

    Václav Hlaváč

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  1. Norwegian Information Security Laboratory, Gjøvik University College, Norway

    Katrin Franke

  2. Fraunhofer FIRST (IDA), Berlin, Germany

    Klaus-Robert Müller

  3. Department of Security Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK), Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Bertram Nickolay

  4. Department of Electronic Imaging Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Einsteinufer 37, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Ralf Schäfer

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Dupač, J., Hlaváč, V. (2006). Stable Wave Detector of Blobs in Images. In: Franke, K., Müller, KR., Nickolay, B., Schäfer, R. (eds) Pattern Recognition. DAGM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11861898_76

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