Feature Detectors and Descriptors

paper	authors	where	notes
A Combined Corner and Edge Detector (http://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/reading/Harris-Stephens.djvu) (DJVU format)	Chris Harris and Mike Stephens	Proceedings of The Fourth Alvey Vision Conference, Manchester, pp 147-151. 1988	Harris corners
Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoint (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lowe04distinctive.html)	David Lowe	IJCV 2003	SIFT
Feature Detection with Automatic Scale Selection (http://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/reading/cvap198.pdf)	Tony Lindeberg	IJCV vol. 30 no. 2, 1998	Scale Space
SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features (http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~surf/eccv06.pdf) mirror (http://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/reading/bay-tuytelaars-van_gool-surf-eccv2006.pdf) website (http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~surf/)	Herbert Bay and Tinne Tuytelaars and Luc Van Gool	ECCV 2006	Like SIFT, but faster. Uses integral image to do crazy approximations.
Affine Covariant Features (http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/) pdf (http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/affine/det_eval_files/kadir04.pdf) mirror (http://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/reading/kadir-zisserman-brady_affine-invariant_eccv2004.pdf)	T. Kadir, A. Zisserman, and M. Brady	Salient regions: T. Kadir, A. Zisserman, and M. Brady, An affine invariant salient region detector. In ECCV p. 404-416, 2004	Affine covariant/invariant features? Not sure if I got the author listing correct...