ImageKeypoints

ImageKeypoints[image]

finds key features in image and returns their coordinates.

ImageKeypoints[image,prop]

gives the specified property prop for each keypoint.

Details and Options

  • Image keypoints are distinct positions on an image highlighting specific image features such as shape, contrast, orientation. Corresponding keypoints are typically used for aligning images.
  • ImageKeypoints[image] finds image keypoints and returns their positions as a list of {{x1,y1},{x2,y2},…}.
  • The following properties can be specified:
  • "Confidence"blob response, given as a positive number
    "ContrastSign" if the keypoint is lighter than its surroundings, otherwise
    "Descriptor"keypoint descriptor
    "Orientation"orientation angle, given in radians
    "OrientedDescriptor"keypoint-oriented descriptor
    "PixelPosition"pixel coordinates {x,y} in the range ,
    "Position"image coordinates {x,y} in the range , (default)
    "Scale"keypoint scale
  • ImageKeypoints sorts the results based on the "Confidence" property of the keypoints.
  • ImageKeypoints[image,{prop1,prop2,…}] returns multiple properties.
  • The feature descriptors returned by ImageKeypoints are numerically robust against translation, rotation, and scale changes.
  • The following options can be specified:
  • KeypointStrength 0minimum strength of the keypoints
    Masking Allregion of interest
    MaxFeatures Allmaximum number of keypoints
    Method "SURF"type of keypoint to return
  • With a setting MaxFeatures->n, at most n keypoints with largest "Confidence" are returned.
  • Possible method settings include:
  • "AGAST"Adaptive and Generic Accelerated Segment Test
    "AKAZE"Accelerated KAZE and binary descriptors
    "BRISK"Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints
    "FAST"Features from Accelerated Segment Test
    "KAZE"nonlinear scale-space detector and descriptor
    "ORB"FAST detector and Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features (BRIEF) descriptor
    "SIFT"Scale-Invariant Feature Transform detector and descriptor
    "RootSIFT"SIFT keypoints with an improved descriptor
    "SURF"Speeded-Up Robust Features
  • When a property is not available with a specified method, the corresponding element in the result is set to Missing["NotAvailable"]. »

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Find keypoints in an image:

Highlight keypoints on the image:

Count the number of points of interest in an image:

Scope  (10)

Keypoints of a grayscale image:

Keypoints of a color image:

Find keypoints in an image:

Return the keypoint descriptor:

Compute multiple properties:

Get properties "Position" and "PixelPosition":

The two corresponding coordinate systems are offset by half a pixel:

Get the "Scale" in pixels:

The scale corresponds to the size of an intrinsic region around the keypoint. Visualize the disc region
around a "SURF" keypoint:

Get the "Orientation" in radians:

Show keypoints with a pattern rotated based on orientation:

Get the "Strength" score:

Display the distribution of the strength of keypoints in an image:

Get the "Descriptor" representing the distribution of pixel values inside a keypoint's neighborhood:

The descriptor is similar to the one of the rotated image:

The "ConstrastSign" is 1 for keypoints lighter than their surroundings:

The sign is -1 for keypoints darker than their surroundings:

Options  (11)

KeypointStrength  (1)

Use a specific threshold for keypoint strength:

By default, all detected keypoints are returned:

Masking  (1)

By default, all keypoints are returned:

Exclude keypoints in the foreground using a mask region:

MaxFeatures  (1)

By default, all detected keypoints are returned:

Get the 50 strongest keypoints:

Method  (8)

By default, "SURF" keypoints are computed:

Compute and visualize a different keypoint:

"FAST" and "AGAST" keypoints are defined by their location and strength at scale 3.5:

Compute and visualize FAST keypoints:

Compute and visualize AGAST keypoints:

"BRISK" and "ORB" keypoints are defined by their location, scale, orientation and strength:

Descriptors are vectors of 0s and 1s of length 512 for "BRISK" and 256 for "ORB":

"AKAZE" and "KAZE" keypoints are defined by their location, scale, orientation and strength:

AKAZE descriptors are vectors of 0s and 1s of length 480:

KAZE descriptors are vectors of 128 real numbers with unit norm:

AKAZE oriented descriptors are computed without correcting for keypoints' intrinsic orientation:

Oriented descriptors match descriptors for keypoints with orientation close to 0:

With the "SURF" method, a keypoint is defined by its location, scale, orientation, contrast sign and strength:

SURF descriptors consist of vectors of 64 real numbers with unit norm:

Oriented descriptors match descriptors for keypoints with orientation close to 0:

The "SIFT" method uses Scale-Invariant Feature Transform to find the location of image keypoints:

The descriptors use histograms of orientations to construct vectors of 128 numbers:

Note that the norm of the descriptor is not equal to one:

The "RootSIFT" method uses the same keypoints locations as "SIFT", but improved descriptors:

Norm of RootSIFT descriptors is equal to one:

Applications  (5)

Visualize SURF keypoints using their scale, orientation and contrast:

Visualize BRISK keypoints:

Extract local patches of fixed size around detected keypoints:

Extract patches of size proportional to the scale of keypoints:

Use keypoints to crop an image to keep the main features:

Create thumbnails of uniform size:

Object recognition using "bag of words" on a dataset of 5,000 images 32×32 each, belonging to 10 categories:

Compute keypoint descriptors on 256×256 images and create the codebook of visual words:

The codebook contains all image descriptors of length 64:

Find 100 visual codewords using -means clustering:

Image features are defined as the normalized counts of all the codewords:

Construct a classifier trained on extracted image features:

Evaluate the classifier on test data:

Properties & Relations  (7)

Not all properties are supported for all methods:

Missing["NotAvailable"] is returned when a property is not available with the specified method:

"FAST" method does not find contrast sign:

"BRISK" method does not compute oriented descriptors:

"SURF" and "KAZE" descriptors are typically compared using the Euclidean distance:

Distances between the strongest keypoint and each of the next 10 strongest:

"AKAZE", "BRISK" and "ORB" descriptors are typically compared using the Hamming distance:

Distances between the strongest keypoint and each of the next 10 strongest:

Cluster the keypoints based on their descriptors:

ImageCorners may be used as keypoints:

Computer corners using radius 3.5 for similarity to the scale of some keypoint detectors:

Use CornerFilter to get the strength of detected corners:

Top 10 FAST keypoints:

Top 10 AGAST keypoints:

ImageCorrespondingPoints gives the locations for keypoints that have matching descriptors:

Compute keypoints on both images:

Take two keypoints with and without a corresponding point in the second image:

Compute all distances between descriptors for these keypoint to all keypoints in the second image:

The second-to-nearest ratio is typically used to decide whether a keypoint has a corresponding point:

The keypoint with a correspondence is red; the other one is yellow:

Wolfram Research (2010), ImageKeypoints, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageKeypoints.html (updated 2021).

Text

Wolfram Research (2010), ImageKeypoints, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageKeypoints.html (updated 2021).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2010. "ImageKeypoints." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2021. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageKeypoints.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2010). ImageKeypoints. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageKeypoints.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_imagekeypoints, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ImageKeypoints}", year="2021", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageKeypoints.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_imagekeypoints, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ImageKeypoints}, year={2021}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageKeypoints.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-December-2024 ]}