Extractors of keypoint descriptors in OpenCV have wrappers with a common interface that enables you to easily switch
between different algorithms solving the same problem. This section is devoted to computing descriptors
represented as vectors in a multidimensional space. All objects that implement the vector
descriptor extractors inherit the
DescriptorExtractor
interface.
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DescriptorExtractor
: public Algorithm
¶Abstract base class for computing descriptors for image keypoints.
class CV_EXPORTS DescriptorExtractor
{
public:
virtual ~DescriptorExtractor();
void compute( const Mat& image, vector<KeyPoint>& keypoints,
Mat& descriptors ) const;
void compute( const vector<Mat>& images, vector<vector<KeyPoint> >& keypoints,
vector<Mat>& descriptors ) const;
virtual void read( const FileNode& );
virtual void write( FileStorage& ) const;
virtual int descriptorSize() const = 0;
virtual int descriptorType() const = 0;
static Ptr<DescriptorExtractor> create( const string& descriptorExtractorType );
protected:
...
};
In this interface, a keypoint descriptor can be represented as a
dense, fixed-dimension vector of a basic type. Most descriptors
follow this pattern as it simplifies computing
distances between descriptors. Therefore, a collection of
descriptors is represented as
Mat
, where each row is a keypoint descriptor.
Computes the descriptors for a set of keypoints detected in an image (first variant) or image set (second variant).
void DescriptorExtractor::
compute
(const Mat& image, vector<KeyPoint>& keypoints, Mat& descriptors) const
¶
void DescriptorExtractor::
compute
(const vector<Mat>& images, vector<vector<KeyPoint>>& keypoints, vector<Mat>& descriptors) const
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Creates a descriptor extractor by name.
Ptr<DescriptorExtractor> DescriptorExtractor::
create
(const string& descriptorExtractorType)¶Parameters: |
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The current implementation supports the following types of a descriptor extractor:
A combined format is also supported: descriptor extractor adapter name ( "Opponent"
–
OpponentColorDescriptorExtractor
) + descriptor extractor name (see above),
for example: "OpponentSIFT"
.
OpponentColorDescriptorExtractor
: public DescriptorExtractor
¶Class adapting a descriptor extractor to compute descriptors in the Opponent Color Space (refer to Van de Sande et al., CGIV 2008 Color Descriptors for Object Category Recognition). Input RGB image is transformed in the Opponent Color Space. Then, an unadapted descriptor extractor (set in the constructor) computes descriptors on each of three channels and concatenates them into a single color descriptor.
class OpponentColorDescriptorExtractor : public DescriptorExtractor
{
public:
OpponentColorDescriptorExtractor( const Ptr<DescriptorExtractor>& dextractor );
virtual void read( const FileNode& );
virtual void write( FileStorage& ) const;
virtual int descriptorSize() const;
virtual int descriptorType() const;
protected:
...
};
BriefDescriptorExtractor
: public DescriptorExtractor
¶Class for computing BRIEF descriptors described in a paper of Calonder M., Lepetit V., Strecha C., Fua P. BRIEF: Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features , 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Heraklion, Crete. LNCS Springer, September 2010.
class BriefDescriptorExtractor : public DescriptorExtractor
{
public:
static const int PATCH_SIZE = 48;
static const int KERNEL_SIZE = 9;
// bytes is a length of descriptor in bytes. It can be equal 16, 32 or 64 bytes.
BriefDescriptorExtractor( int bytes = 32 );
virtual void read( const FileNode& );
virtual void write( FileStorage& ) const;
virtual int descriptorSize() const;
virtual int descriptorType() const;
protected:
...
};
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