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Presented a pipeline for detecting scale-space extrema, localizing stable keypoints, assigning orientations and constructing distinctive local descriptors for matching across scale, rotation and substantial imaging changes.
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The record is Lowe's sole-author 2004 International Journal of Computer Vision article. It does not absorb his earlier conference versions, the SIFT patent, later descriptor variants or universal invariance under arbitrary viewpoint and illumination changes.
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David G. Lowe
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Lowe: distinctive scale-invariant image keypoints
Presented a pipeline for detecting scale-space extrema, localizing stable keypoints, assigning orientations and constructing distinctive local descriptors for matching across scale, rotation and substantial imaging changes.
Scientific scope
The record is Lowe's sole-author 2004 International Journal of Computer Vision article. It does not absorb his earlier conference versions, the SIFT patent, later descriptor variants or universal invariance under arbitrary viewpoint and illumination changes.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
David G. Lowe
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.