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Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features David G. Lowe Computer Science Department University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada lowe@cs.ubc.ca Abstract translation, scaling, and rotation, and partially invariant to illumination changes and affine or 3D projection. Previous An object recognition system has been developed that uses a approaches to local feature generation lacked invariance to new class of local image features. The features are invariant scale and were more sensitive to projective distortion and to image scaling, translation, and rotation, and partially in- illumination change. The SIFT features share a number of variant to illumination changes and affine or 3D projection. properties in common with the responses of neurons in infe- These features share similar properties with neurons in in- rior temporal (IT) cortex in primate vision. This paper also ferior temporal cortex that are used for object recognition describes improved approaches to indexing and model ver- in primate vision. Features are efficiently detected through ification. a staged filtering approach that identifies stable points in The scale-invariant features are efficiently identified by scale space. Image keys are created that allow for local ge- using a staged filtering approach. The first stage identifies ometric deformations by representing blurred image gradi- key locations in scale space by looking for locations that ents in multiple orientation planes and at multiple scales. are max