Much emphasis has recently been placed on the detection and recognition of locally (weak) affine invariant region descriptors for object recognition. In this paper, we take recognition one step further by developing features for non-planar objects. We consider the description of objects with locally smoothly varying surface. For this class of objects, colour invariant histogram matching has proven to be very encouraging. However, matching many local colour cubes is computationally demanding. We propose a compact colour descriptor, which we call Wiccest, requiring only 12 numbers to locally capture colour and texture information. The Wiccest features are shown to be fairly insensitive to photometric effects like shadow, shading, and illumination colour. Moreover, we demonstrate the features to be applicable to highly compressed images while retaining discriminative power.
@InProceedings{GeusebroekBMVC2006,
author = "Geusebroek, J. M.",
title = "Compact Object Descriptors from Local Colour Invariant Histograms",
booktitle = "British Machine Vision Conference",
volume = "3",
pages = "1029--1038",
year = "2006",
url = "https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/publications/2006/GeusebroekBMVC2006",
pdf = "https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/publications/2006/GeusebroekBMVC2006/GeusebroekBMVC2006.pdf"
}