Building a Star feature detector

The SIFT feature detector is good in many cases. However, when we build object recognition systems, we may want to use a different feature detector before we extract features using SIFT. This will give us the flexibility to cascade different blocks to get the best possible performance.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the Star feature detector to detect features from an image.

How to do it...

Let's see how we can build a Star feature detector:

1. Create a new Python file and import the following packages (the full code is given...