Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Developer Guide and Reference

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Date 3/22/2024
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Corner Detection

The Sobel and Scharr first derivative operators are to be used to take the x and y derivatives of an image. Then a small region of interest (ROI) is to be defined to detect corners in.

A 2x2 matrix of sums of the x and y derivatives is created as follows:


Solving


where λ is a column vector of the eigen values and I is the identity matrix, gives the eigen values. For the 2x2 matrix of the equation above, the solutions may be written in a closed form:

If λ1, λ2 > t, where t is some threshold, then a corner is considered to be found at that location. This can be very useful for object or shape recognition.