Validation and Regression
Correctly implementing algorithms and producing the expected performance is difficult. BoofCV contains thousands internal tests to help ensure correctness of its algorithms, but it is nearly impossible to be 100% sure that the implementation is correct. This is especially true since often academic papers leave out important implementations needed to reproduce their work!. In the best case scenario an implementation will be compared against the author's original implementation. This page contains a list of important algorithms inside of BoofCV and if they have been validated against external libraries or not.
Source code used to validate BoofCV can be found at the ValidationBoof project on GitHub. ValidationBoof also contains regression tests designed to check for changes in stability/performance of different algorithms. It is entirely possible for all the unit tests to pass and have a 20% drop in performance due to a minor change. Regression tests are designed to catch those problems.
| Status |
Meaning
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| Validated |
As good or better than original code or test data
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| Needs Work |
Producing results which are not as good as expected
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| NA |
Significantly different from original. See comments in code
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Blank means that it has not been externally validated
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Region Descriptors
| Algorithm
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Status
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Comments
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| SURF |
Validated |
Original authors reference binary and others. http://boofcv.org/index.php?title=Performance:SURF
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| SIFT |
Validated |
Scale-space is computed significantly different from original. Out performs reference binary, possibly due to more tuning options.
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| KLT |
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| BRIEF |
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Feature Detectors
3D Vision
| Algorithm
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Status
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Comments
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| Zhang99 |
Validated |
More accurate than parameters found in paper. Given same points it produces same results as OpenCV. More accurate calibration point detector then OpenCV.
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| EPnP |
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Pending verification against author's code
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| 8+ pt Fundamental |
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| 8+ pt Essential |
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| 7 pt Fundamental |
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| 7 pt Essential |
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| 5 pt Essential Nister |
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Pending validation against author's Matlab code
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| Linear H |
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| Linear Trifocal 7 |
Validated |
Compared to matlab code found online that was based off the same source. Validation Code
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Object Tracking
| Algorithm
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Status
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Comments
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| TLD |
Validated |
Comparable to slightly less stable than original. TLD is less stable than it at first appears, making scoring difficult.
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| Circulant |
Validated |
Improved over original. Much faster and slightly more stable.
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| MeanShiftComaniciu2003 |
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Image Processing
| Algorithm
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Status
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Comments
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| Convolution |
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Interpolation
| Algorithm
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Status
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Comments
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| Nearest Neighbour |
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| Bilinear |
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Image Transformation
| Algorithm
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Status
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Comments
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| Wavelet |
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