Locally Affine Invariant Descriptors for Shape Matching and Retrieval

This work proposes novel locally affine invariant descriptors for shape representation. The descriptors are theoretically simple and solid, derived from the matrix theories. They can be used for matching and retrieval of shapes under affine transformation, articulated motion or nonrigid deformation. Comparisons of the work with the state-of-the-art shape descriptors are performed based on synthetic and some well-known databases. The experiments validate that the proposed descriptors achieve higher retrieval accuracy and have faster running speed than most of other approaches.