Researchers have attempted utilizing deep neural network (DNN) to learn novel
local features from images inspired by its recent successes on a variety of
vision tasks. However, existing DNN-based algorithms have not achieved such
remarkable progress that could be partly attributed to i
DALF is a new, deformation-aware network for jointly detecting and describing keypoints, which can be used for local feature extraction in computer vision and delivers better performance when dealing with matching deformable surfaces.