Liu Li, Zhan Yinyin, Luo Yang, Liu Chaohui, Peng Fuyuan. Summarization of the scale invariant feature transform[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2013, 18(8): 885-892. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20130801.
With the development of software and hardware technique
computer vision has become a hot research fields in image processing. Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) is one of the most successful vision algorithm nowadays and it is widely studied by the computer vision community because of its unique features.SIFT is scale invariant
rotation invariant and illumination invariant. However
it also has some problems such as it is only part affine has a rather the high computation complexity. Many extended or modified algorithms of the SIFT are developed unceasingly. In this paper
we summarize the history
the evolved processing
and the application of the SIFT and compares those algorithm effects. At last
the paper discusses the feature direction and provides reference for computer vision researchers.