SURF Points filtering

I would like to remove SURF-points which are on a black boundary, where the intensity is zero. I have an image which I transformed and now has a black border around it. I don't want to rotate and crop the transformed image for demonstration purposes. How can I remove these SURF-points?

Answer 1

[Witek Jachimczyk]

If you are using SURFPoints object from the Computer Vision System Toolbox, once you create your object, you can access the Location property, e.g.

x = SURFPoints([20 20; 3 4]); % this would normally be generated % by detectSURFFEatures >> x.Location

ans =

    20    20
     3     4

You can now filter the points based on location, e.g.

>> xcoord = x.Location(:,1) % get column of x coordinates

xcoord =

    20
     3

>> x(xcoord>5) = [] % wipe out any point where x coordinate is % greater than 5

Hence, you can wipe out points that are within a particular image region. You'll need to know the coordinates of you black border in order to use this strategy. Let me know if any of this is not making sense.

Witek

[Tobias Pahlberg]

My black border is not straight so I can't write x(xcoord>5) = [];

It seems a bit backwords to search for the SURFPoints in the unwanted area. Is there no way to make the program never look for them there. I would also like to know if there is a way to do that with the FAST corner detector. Make it never look for corners on a completely black border.