README

                       VLBenchmakrs
                     Version 1.0-beta
          Karel Lenc   Varun Gulshan   Andrea Vedaldi

This package implements a collection of benchmkark routines to evaluate local feature detectors and descriptors. See http://www.vlfeat.org/benchmarks/index.html or the bundled copy doc/index.html for installation and usage instructions.

CHANGES

v1.0-beta (5-10-2012) First public release.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project was supported by the PASCAL Harvest Programme 2012.

Part of the package is based on code of Krystian Mikolajczyk
as available here: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/affine/.

The authors would like to thank Andrew Zisserman, Jiri Matas,
Krystian Mikolajczyk, Tinne Tuytelaars, and Cordelia Schmid for
helpful discussion and supports.

REFERENCES

[1] K. Mikolajczyk, T. Tuytelaars, C. Schmid, A. Zisserman, J. Matas, F. Schaffalitzky, T. Kadir, and L. Van Gool. A comparison of affine region detectors. IJCV, 1(65):43–72, 2005.

[2] H. Jegou, M. Douze and C. Schmid, Exploiting descriptor distances for precise image search, Research report, INRIA 2011 http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00602325/PDF/RA-7656.pdf