How to achieve invariance
Need both of the following:
1. Make sure your detector is invariant
Harris is invariant to translation and rotation
Scale is trickier
common approach is to detect features at many scales using a
Gaussian pyramid (e.g., MOPS)
More sophisticated methods find “the best scale” to represent
each feature (e.g., SIFT)
2.  Design an invariant feature descriptor
A descriptor captures the information in a region around the
detected feature point
The simplest descriptor:  a square window of pixels
What’s this invariant to?
Let’s look at some better approaches…