% SIFT_OVERVIEW Scale-Invariant Feature Transfrom % % This is a MATLAB/C implementation of SIFT detector and descriptor % [1]. You can: % % * Use SIFT() to detect the SIFT frames (keypoints) of a given image % and compute their descriptors. Then you can use SIFTMATCH() to % match the descriptors. % % * Use PLOTSS(), PLOTSIFTDESCRIPTOR(), PLOTSIFTFRAME(), % PLOTMATCHES() to visualize the results. % % As SIFT is implemented by several reusable M and MEX files, you can % also run portions of the algorithm, or change them. Specifically, % you can: % % * Use SIFTDESCRIPTOR() to compute the SIFT descriptor from a list % of frames and a scale space or plain image. % % * Use GAUSSIANSS() and DIFFSS() to compute the Gaussian and DOG % scale spaces. % % * Use SIFTLOCALMAX(), SIFTREFINEMX(), SIFTORMX() to manually % extract the SIFT frames from the DOG scale space. More in % general, you can use SIFTLOCALMAX() to find maximizers of any % multi-dimensional arrays. % % REFERENCES % [1] D. G. Lowe, "Distinctive image features from scale-invariant % keypoints," IJCV, vol. 2, no. 60, pp. 91 110, 2004. % % See also PDF:SIFT.INTRODUCTION.