Research Article

TreeBASIS Feature Descriptor and Its Hardware Implementation

Table 3

Accuracy results and memory footprints for SIFT, SURF, BASIS, and TreeBASIS on the Idaho dataset. Memory usage assumes that 1,000 features per image are kept for each algorithm.

AlgorithmAverage memory usage per imageHomography accuracy

SIFT1,024 Kilobytes34.7%
SURF512 Kilobytes73.5%
BASIS288 Kilobytes75.5%
TreeBASIS2.1 Kilobytes79.6%