Title
Scale-invariant template matching using histogram of dominant gradients
Abstract
This paper presents a histogram-based template matching method that copes with the large scale difference between target and template images. Most of the previous template matching methods are sensitive to the scale difference between target and template images because the features extracted from the images are changed according to the scale of the images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce the concept of dominant gradients and describe an image as the feature that is tolerant to scale changes. To this end, we first extract the dominant gradients of a template image and represent the template image as the grids of histograms of the dominant gradients. Then, the arbitrary regions of a target image with various locations and scales are matched with the template image via histogram matching. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more robust to scale difference than previous template matching techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.patcog.2014.02.016
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Template matching,Dominant gradient enhancement,Scaling-tolerant histogram vector
Journal
47
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0031-3203
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jisung Yoo1101.91
Sung Soo Hwang2144.28
Seong-Dae Kim318425.81
Myungseok Ki4183.51
Jihun Cha5559.19