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ORBPoints

Object for storing ORB keypoints

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Description

An ORBPoints object stores the Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB) keypoints in an image. You can specify the keypoints and store them as an ORBPoints object. You can also use the detectORBFeatures function to detect the ORB keypoints in an image. The detectORBFeatures function stores the detected ORB keypoints as an ORBPoints object. Use Object Functions to plot, select, and manipulate the detected ORB keypoints.

Creation

Syntax

points = ORBPoints
points = ORBPoints(location)
points = ORBPoints(location,Name,Value)

Description

points = ORBPoints creates an ORBPoints object with default property values.

points = ORBPoints(location) creates an ORBPoints object from a set of location coordinates specified by location. The location input sets the Location property.

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points = ORBPoints(location,Name,Value) sets properties of the object using one or more name-value pair arguments. Enclose each property name in quotes. For example, ORBPoints(location,'Count',15) creates an ORBPoints object with Count property set to 15.

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Properties

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This property is read-only.

Location of keypoints, specified as an M-by-2 matrix. Each row is of the form [x y] and represents the location of a keypoint. M is the number of keypoints. You cannot set this property as a name-value pair. Use the location input argument.

This property is read-only.

Strength of keypoints, specified as one of these values:

  • A scalar — Detected keypoints have the same strength. In this case, the object assigns the same Metric value to all keypoints.

  • An M-element vector — Detected keypoints have different strength values. In this case, the object assigns different Metric value to each keypoint. M is the number of keypoints.

Example: ORBPoints(location,'Metric',0.5)

Data Types: single

This property is read-only.

Number of keypoints held by the object, specified as a nonnegative integer.

This property is read-only.

Scale factor, specified as one of these values:

  • A scalar — All keypoints are detected at the same level of decomposition. In this case, the object assigns the same Scale value to all keypoints.

  • An M-element vector — The keypoints are detected at different levels of decomposition. In this case, the object assigns different Scale value to each keypoint. M is the number of keypoints.

The scale factor specifies the level of decomposition at which a keypoint is detected.

Example: ORBPoints(location,'Scale',1.2)

Data Types: single

This property is read-only.

Angle of keypoints in radians, specified as one of these values:

  • A scalar — Detected keypoints are of the same orientation. In this case, the object assigns the same Orientation value to all keypoints.

  • An M-element vector — Detected keypoints are of different orientation. In this case, the object assigns different Orientation value to each keypoint. M is the number of keypoints.

The angle made by a keypoint is defined with reference to the horizontal axis of the image. The coordinate of the keypoint is set as the origin of the axis.

Example: ORBPoints(location,'Orientation',0.7854)

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Object Functions

isemptyDetermine if points object is empty
lengthNumber of stored points
plotPlot points
selectStrongestSelect points with strongest metrics
sizeReturn size of points object
selectUniformSelect uniformly distributed subset of point features
selectSelect point or region features during code generation

Examples

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Open Live Script

Read an image into the workspace. 

I = imread('licensePlates.jpg');

Convert the image into a grayscale image.

I = im2gray(I);

Specify the location of keypoints in the image.

location = [400 398; ...
            485 343; ...
            274 323; ...
            274 367; ...
            241 313; ...
            302 213];

Create an ORBPoints object and display its properties.

points = ORBPoints(location)
points = 
  6x1 ORBPoints array with properties:

       Location: [6x2 single]
         Metric: [6x1 single]
          Count: 6
          Scale: [6x1 single]
    Orientation: [6x1 single]

Inspect the Scale and Orientation properties of the ORBPoints object.

points.Scale
ans = 6x1 single column vector

     1
     1
     1
     1
     1
     1


points.Orientation
ans = 6x1 single column vector

     0
     0
     0
     0
     0
     0

Specify the scale value for each keypoint.

scale = [2.1 2.5 2.5 4 2.3 3.9];

Specify the angle values for the keypoints as 0.7854 radians.

angle = 0.7854;

Create an ORBPoints object with the keypoints and the updated scale and angle values. The output is an ORBPoints object containing keypoints with the modified Scale and Orientation properties.

points = ORBPoints(location,'Scale',scale,'Orientation',angle);

Inspect the updated Scale values.

points.Scale
ans = 6x1 single column vector

    2.1000
    2.5000
    2.5000
    4.0000
    2.3000
    3.9000

Inspect the updated Orientation values. Since the Orientation value is a scalar, the object assigns same value to all keypoints.

points.Orientation
ans = 6x1 single column vector

    0.7854
    0.7854
    0.7854
    0.7854
    0.7854
    0.7854

Display the image and plot the ORB keypoints on the image.

figure
imshow(I)
hold on
plot(points)

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains 3 objects of type image, line. One or more of the lines displays its values using only markers

Open Live Script

Read an image into the workspace.

I = imread('cameraman.tif');

Use the detectORBFeatures function to detect ORB keypoints in the image. The function returns the detected ORB keypoints as an ORBPoints object.

points = detectORBFeatures(I);

Use the selectUniform object function to select 10 ORB keypoints. The output of the selectUniform object function is an ORBPoints object. 

newPoints = selectUniform(points,10,size(I))
newPoints = 
  10x1 ORBPoints array with properties:

       Location: [10x2 single]
         Metric: [10x1 single]
          Count: 10
          Scale: [10x1 single]
    Orientation: [10x1 single]

Display the location and scale of the selected keypoints on the image.

figure
imshow(I)
hold on
plot(newPoints)

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains 3 objects of type image, line. One or more of the lines displays its values using only markers

Display the (x, y) coordinates of the selected keypoints.

x = newPoints.Location(:,1);
y = newPoints.Location(:,2);
[x y]
ans = 10x2 single matrix

   147    62
   111    63
   143    67
   127    89
    47   124
    34   154
   183   205
   113   206
   111   207
   148    66

Display the orientation of the selected keypoints.

newPoints.Orientation
ans = 10x1 single column vector

    5.4682
    0.7888
    5.3084
    6.2443
    2.8221
    3.8440
    6.1212
    6.0344
    4.8840
    5.5535

Tips

Although ORBPoints can hold many points, it is a scalar object. Therefore, numel(ORBPoints) always returns 1. This value can differ from length(ORBPoints), which returns the true number of points held by the object.

References

[1] Rublee, E., V. Rabaud, K. Konolige, and G. Bradski. "ORB: An Efficient Alternative to SIFT or SURF." In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 2564–2571. Barcelona, Spain: IEEE, 2011.

Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced in R2019a

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