The invention relates to a maximum
average entropy-based scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) descriptor binaryzation and
similarity matching method and belongs to the
image matching field. Scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) operators have strong matching ability, while, the scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) operators will bring a huge amount of data, and therefore, binaryzation should be performed on the scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) operators, however, if unified binaryzation is performed on all the operators,
data redundancy or
information loss will be brought about. The maximum
average entropy-based scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) descriptor binaryzation and
similarity matching method of the invention comprises the following steps that: binaryzation is performed on the scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) operators;
average entropy calculation is performed on each layer of binaryzation results, such that different numbers of binaryzation
layers are selected adaptively; new binaryzation descriptors are provided; the
Hamming distance is utilized to replace the
Euclidean distance so as to calculate the distance between two descriptors; and the distance between the two descriptors is compared with a set threshold value. With the maximum average entropy-based scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) descriptor binaryzation and
similarity matching method of the invention adopted, information of original features is reserved; the amount of data storage can be greatly reduced; computational complexity can be reduced; a requirement for a real-time property can be realized better; the matching results equivalent to original scale-invariant?feature?transform (SIFT) descriptors can be obtained and are far superior to results of matching by using the unified binaryzation.