An Improved Harris Corner Detection Algorithm for Noised Images

Abstract

The Harris corner detection algorithm is widely applied in image mosaic, which is simple and stable. However, the algorithm has a disadvantage that it obtains a lot of false corners when there exist some noise in an image. An improved Harris corner detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The new algorithm reduces the noise impact greatly. The experimental results show that the improved algorithm not only reduces false corner points greatly, but also retain the majority of true corners. As a result, it improves the detection accuracy and reduces the chance of error matching in image registration.