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This paper proposes a concept for SE(3)-equivariant non-linear filters for multiple purposes, especially in the context of feature and object detection. The idea of the approach is to compute local descriptors as projections onto a local harmonic basis. These descriptors are mapped in a non-linear way onto new local harmonic representations, which then contribute to the filter output in a linear way. This approach may be interpreted as a kind of voting procedure in the spirit of the generalized Hough transform, where the local harmonic representations are interpreted as a voting function. On the other hand, the filter has similarities with classical low-level feature detectors (like corner/blob/line detectors), just extended to the generic feature/object detection problem. The proposed approach fills the gap between low-level feature detectors and high-level object detection systems based on the generalized Hough transform. We will apply the proposed filter to a feature detection task on confocal microscopical images of airborne pollen and compare the results to a 3D-extension of a popular GHT-based approach and to a classification per voxel solution.
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Reisert, M., Burkhardt, H. (2009). Harmonic Filters for Generic Feature Detection in 3D. In: Denzler, J., Notni, G., Süße, H. (eds) Pattern Recognition. DAGM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5748. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03798-6_14
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