Maximally Stable Extremal Regions
J.Matas et.al. “Distinguished Regions for Wide-baseline Stereo”. BMVC 2002.
Maximally Stable Extremal Regions
Threshold image intensities: I > thresh
for several increasing values of thresh
Extract connected components
(“Extremal Regions”)
Find a threshold when region is
“Maximally Stable”, i.e. local minimum
of the relative growth
Approximate each region with
an ellipse