Colour Contour Frames

Does the computer vision community really need another feature?

Yes, because current state of the art is developed for textured objects and objects with a lot of details. When we were developing a system that should recognise simple blocks from a shape sorter puzzle we found that none of the existing features were sufficient.

Input image SIFT output MSER output CCF output (Our new feature)
Frames either unstable or too large. Only two frames detected. Four stable frames and one spurious.

The colour contour frame (CCF) algorithm was published at the CRV'06 conference.