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ORB

Features and matchingclassOpenCV 5.0.0
import { ORB } from '@banou/opencv-wasm'

Use after await initOpenCV(). See the initialization and named imports guide.

Native object: release it with using or delete(). Factories can return null; check before calling methods. Inherits Feature2D.

Class implementing the ORB (oriented BRIEF) keypoint detector and descriptor extractor

described in [RRKB11] . The algorithm uses FAST in pyramids to detect stable keypoints, selects the strongest features using FAST or Harris response, finds their orientation using first-order moments and computes the descriptors using BRIEF (where the coordinates of random point pairs (or k-tuples) are rotated according to the measured orientation).

Constructors and members

static create

The ORB constructor

create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number, firstLevel: number, WTA_K: number, scoreType: number, patchSize: number, fastThreshold: number): ORB | null;
10 available overloads
create(): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number, firstLevel: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number, firstLevel: number, WTA_K: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number, firstLevel: number, WTA_K: number, scoreType: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number, firstLevel: number, WTA_K: number, scoreType: number, patchSize: number): ORB | null;
create(nfeatures: number, scaleFactor: number, nlevels: number, edgeThreshold: number, firstLevel: number, WTA_K: number, scoreType: number, patchSize: number, fastThreshold: number): ORB | null;
nfeatures

The maximum number of features to retain.

scaleFactor

Pyramid decimation ratio, greater than 1. scaleFactor==2 means the classical pyramid, where each next level has 4x less pixels than the previous, but such a big scale factor will degrade feature matching scores dramatically. On the other hand, too close to 1 scale factor will mean that to cover certain scale range you will need more pyramid levels and so the speed will suffer.

nlevels

The number of pyramid levels. The smallest level will have linear size equal to input_image_linear_size/pow(scaleFactor, nlevels - firstLevel).

edgeThreshold

This is size of the border where the features are not detected. It should roughly match the patchSize parameter.

firstLevel

The level of pyramid to put source image to. Previous layers are filled with upscaled source image.

WTA_K

The number of points that produce each element of the oriented BRIEF descriptor. The default value 2 means the BRIEF where we take a random point pair and compare their brightnesses, so we get 0/1 response. Other possible values are 3 and 4. For example, 3 means that we take 3 random points (of course, those point coordinates are random, but they are generated from the pre-defined seed, so each element of BRIEF descriptor is computed deterministically from the pixel rectangle), find point of maximum brightness and output index of the winner (0, 1 or 2). Such output will occupy 2 bits, and therefore it will need a special variant of Hamming distance, denoted as NORM_HAMMING2 (2 bits per bin). When WTA_K=4, we take 4 random points to compute each bin (that will also occupy 2 bits with possible values 0, 1, 2 or 3).

scoreType

The default HARRIS_SCORE means that Harris algorithm is used to rank features (the score is written to KeyPoint::score and is used to retain best nfeatures features); FAST_SCORE is alternative value of the parameter that produces slightly less stable keypoints, but it is a little faster to compute.

patchSize

size of the patch used by the oriented BRIEF descriptor. Of course, on smaller pyramid layers the perceived image area covered by a feature will be larger.

fastThreshold

the fast threshold

Returns

The ORB | null result.

clone

Create another handle to the same native object. This retains the object without copying its pixels or algorithm state; dispose both handles separately.

clone(): this;
Returns

The this result.

setMaxFeatures

Set the max features used by this ORB object.

setMaxFeatures(maxFeatures: number): void;
maxFeatures

max features argument (number).

getMaxFeatures

Return the max features configured on this ORB object.

getMaxFeatures(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setScaleFactor

Set the scale factor used by this ORB object.

setScaleFactor(scaleFactor: number): void;
scaleFactor

scale factor argument (number).

getScaleFactor

Return the scale factor configured on this ORB object.

getScaleFactor(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setNLevels

Set the nlevels used by this ORB object.

setNLevels(nlevels: number): void;
nlevels

nlevels argument (number).

getNLevels

Return the nlevels configured on this ORB object.

getNLevels(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setEdgeThreshold

Set the edge threshold used by this ORB object.

setEdgeThreshold(edgeThreshold: number): void;
edgeThreshold

edge threshold argument (number).

getEdgeThreshold

Return the edge threshold configured on this ORB object.

getEdgeThreshold(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setFirstLevel

Set the first level used by this ORB object.

setFirstLevel(firstLevel: number): void;
firstLevel

first level argument (number).

getFirstLevel

Return the first level configured on this ORB object.

getFirstLevel(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setWTA_K

Set the wta k used by this ORB object.

setWTA_K(wta_k: number): void;
wta_k

wta k argument (number).

getWTA_K

Return the wta k configured on this ORB object.

getWTA_K(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setScoreType

Set the score type used by this ORB object.

setScoreType(scoreType: number): void;
scoreType

score type argument (number).

getScoreType

Return the score type configured on this ORB object.

getScoreType(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setPatchSize

Set the patch size used by this ORB object.

setPatchSize(patchSize: number): void;
patchSize

patch size argument (number).

getPatchSize

Return the patch size configured on this ORB object.

getPatchSize(): number;
Returns

The number result.

setFastThreshold

Set the fast threshold used by this ORB object.

setFastThreshold(fastThreshold: number): void;
fastThreshold

fast threshold argument (number).

getFastThreshold

Return the fast threshold configured on this ORB object.

getFastThreshold(): number;
Returns

The number result.

getDefaultName

Returns the algorithm string identifier. This string is used as top level xml/yml node tag when the object is saved to a file or string.

getDefaultName(): string;
Returns

The string result.

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