Chapter 10 Region Glyph Metrics

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

―Louis Pasteur

Overview

We refer to a glyph as a type of feature descriptor in the VGM. As surveyed in [1], features may be computed globally over an entire image or locally in selected areas. Features may be representented in various metric spaces. According to the taxonomy in [1], the following families of feature descriptors can be named:

Local binary descriptors: features are defined as binary sets or vectors; for example, SIFT, LBP, BRISK, ORB, BRIEF, CENSUS, FREAK

Spectra descriptors: features are defined using a range of metrics such as statistical metrics, histograms, gradients, and colors; for example, SIFT or SURF

Basis space ...

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