Evaluating the performance and correlation of colour invariant local image feature detectors

This paper evaluates the performance of state of the art colour invariants for the purposes of local image feature detection. We adapt the Harris-Laplace detector for colour invariance and test it under general image distortions. A second investigation examines the correlation between the colour invariants where the number of correctly detected unique points are analysed. This paper aims to answer if colour invariants should be used for feature detection purposes, and if they could be jointly used by feature fusion techniques to augment the performance of intensity-based detectors.