README.md

BALF ⚡
Simple and Efficient Blur Aware Local Feature Detector

WACV 2024

Zhenjun Zhao     

   

BALF is able to detect well localized and repeatable keypoints from both sharp and blurred images.

TODO List

• Release the training code.
• Release the testing code.
• Release the model checkpoint.
• Add installation and usage guidance.
• Release the Blur-HPatches dataset.

Installation

Install this repo using pip:

git clone https://github.com/ericzzj1989/BALF.git && cd BALF
python -m pip install -e .

Acknowledgments

The author thanks Peidong Liu and Ben M. Chen for supporting.

Citation

If you find this code or paper useful, please cite:

@InProceedings{Zhao_2024_WACV,
    author    = {Zhao, Zhenjun},
    title     = {BALF: Simple and Efficient Blur Aware Local Feature Detector},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    month     = {January},
    year      = {2024},
    pages     = {3362-3372}
}

Contact

Contact Zhenjun Zhao for questions, comments and reporting bugs.