A novel rank order LoG filter for interest point detection

• Main Authors: Miao, Zhenwei, Jiang, Xudong
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98558; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13400
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper proposes a novel non-linear filter, named rank order LoG (ROLG) filter, and a new interest point detector, named ROLG detector. The ROLG filter is a weighted rank order filter. It is used to detect image structures whose significant majority of pixels are brighter (or darker) than the sig...