Image alignment and feature extraction

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Stuart

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Stuart Mumford <stuart at mumford.me.uk> wrote:
> After having spoken to people at scipy this year I have seen a lot of work
> going into feature extraction and description. I was wondering what the
> status of this was and what still needs to be done before I (/we, SunPy) can
> use it to align our images?

Google Summer of Code is just ending, and Ankit posted the result of
his and Johannes's work on ORB:

http://skimager.blogspot.com/2013/09/oriented-fast-and-rotated-brieforb-hi.html

We also have STAR (Censure) features, so registration is finally within reach!

> P.S. expect more emails regarding image warping in the next month ;)

Bring it on!

Cheers
Stéfan