Scale-Invariant Primal Sketch Tokens


Introduction

This code is my implementation of T. Lindeberg's scale-invariant primal sketch. I have been using this over the last years in my research on object detection and shape modeling.

The code takes as input a grayscale image and convolves it with Gaussian kernels of increasing size. Using this scale-space, edge and ridge contours are found as maxima in space and scale of appropriate differential operators. These contours are then post-processed to obtain a sparse set of straight line segments.
Apart from computing T. Lindeberg's primal sketch, additional functionalities that are generally useful include:

  • Efficient Gaussian Filtering with a mex implementation of R. Deriche's IIR Filters.
  • A line tracking algorithm along the lines of Nevatia and Babu.
  • The line segmentation algorithm used in D. Lowe's SCEPRO system.

Related Publications

I. Kokkinos and A. Yuille,
HOP: Hierarchical Object Parsing,
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
[pdf] [bib]

I. Kokkinos and A. Yuille,
Scale Invariance without Scale Selection,
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008.
[pdf] [bib]

I. Kokkinos and A. Yuille,
Unsupervised Learning of Object Deformation Models,
Proc. IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007.
[pdf] [supplement] [slides] [bib]

  • I. Kokkinos, P. Maragos and A. Yuille,
    Bottom-Up and Top-Down Object Detection Using Primal Sketch Features and Graphical Models,
    Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006.
    [pdf] [bib]

  • Tony Lindeberg,
    Edge Detection and Ridge Detection with Automatic Scale Selection ,
    International Journal of Computer Vision, v.30 n.2, p.117-156, Nov. 1998


    Terms of use

    If you use this code in your research, please cite our CVPR 2006 paper.

    Downloads

    Code, readme, documentation: PS_primal_sketch.zip.
    Usage, demos etc: readme.pdf.

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