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![image](images/sift_scale_invariant.jpg) |
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So, in 2004, **D.Lowe**, University of British Columbia, came up with a new algorithm, Scale |
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In 2004, **D.Lowe**, University of British Columbia, came up with a new algorithm, Scale |
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Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) in his paper, **Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant |
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Keypoints**, which extract keypoints and compute its descriptors. *(This paper is easy to understand |
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and considered to be best material available on SIFT. So this explanation is just a short summary of |
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and considered to be best material available on SIFT. This explanation is just a short summary of |
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this paper)*. |
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There are mainly four steps involved in SIFT algorithm. We will see them one-by-one. |
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greater than 0.8, they are rejected. It eliminates around 90% of false matches while discards only |
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5% correct matches, as per the paper. |
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So this is a summary of SIFT algorithm. For more details and understanding, reading the original |
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paper is highly recommended. Remember one thing, this algorithm is patented. So this algorithm is |
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included in [the opencv contrib repo](https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib) |
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This is a summary of SIFT algorithm. For more details and understanding, reading the original |
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paper is highly recommended. |
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SIFT in OpenCV |
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So now let's see SIFT functionalities available in OpenCV. Let's start with keypoint detection and |
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draw them. First we have to construct a SIFT object. We can pass different parameters to it which |
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are optional and they are well explained in docs. |
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Now let's see SIFT functionalities available in OpenCV. Note that these were previously only |
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available in [the opencv contrib repo](https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib), but the patent |
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expired in the year 2020. So they are now included in the main repo. Let's start with keypoint |
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detection and draw them. First we have to construct a SIFT object. We can pass different |
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parameters to it which are optional and they are well explained in docs. |
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@code{.py} |
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import numpy as np |
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import cv2 as cv |
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