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A new feature detection technique is presented that utilises local radial symmetry to identify regions of interest within a scene. This transform is significantly faster than existing techniques using radial symmetry and offers the possibility of real-time implementation on a standard processor. The new transform is shown to perform well on a wide variety of images and its performance is tested against leading techniques from the literature. Both as a facial feature detector and as a generic region of interest detector the new transform is seen to offer equal or superior performance to contemporary techniques whilst requiring drastically less computational effort.
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Loy, G., Zelinsky, A. (2002). A Fast Radial Symmetry Transform for Detecting Points of Interest. In: Heyden, A., Sparr, G., Nielsen, M., Johansen, P. (eds) Computer Vision — ECCV 2002. ECCV 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2350. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47969-4_24
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