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A tutorial on binary descriptors – part 4 – The BRISK descriptor

This fourth post in our series about binary descriptors that will talk about the BRISK descriptor [1]. We had an introduction to patch descriptors, an introduction to binary descriptors and posts about the BRIEF [2] and the ORB [3] descriptors.

We’ll start by showing the following figure that shows an example of using BRISK to match between real world images with viewpoint change. Green lines are valid matches, red circles are detected keypoints.

BRISK descriptor - example of matching points using BRISK

BRISK descriptor – example of matching points using BRISK

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