Evaluation of interest point detectors

Many different low-level feature detectors exist and it is widely agreed th at the evaluation of detectors is important. In this paper we introduce two evaluation criteria for interest points: repeatability rate and informatio n content. Repeatability rate evaluates the geometric stability under diffe rent transformations. Information content measures the distinctiveness of f eatures. Different interest point detectors are compared using these two cr iteria. We determine which detector gives the best results and show that it satisfies the criteria well.