libxfeat - XFeat Feature Extractor written in native CUDA and C++

mkdir build 
cd build

cmake .. && make -j && ctest --verbose

# some tests require a python environment containing torch or numpy etc. Edit the below lines in CMakeLists.txt
# source ~/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh && conda activate cusfm


# For debug builds, use cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..

Sample output

Citation

If you find this code useful for your research, please cite the original paper along with this repo:

https://github.com/verlab/accelerated_features

@INPROCEEDINGS{potje2024cvpr,
  author={Potje, Guilherme and Cadar, Felipe and Araujo, André and Martins, Renato and Nascimento, Erickson R.},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, 
  title={XFeat: Accelerated Features for Lightweight Image Matching}, 
  year={2024},
  pages={2682-2691},
  keywords={Visualization;Accuracy;Image matching;Pose estimation;Feature extraction;Hardware;Real-time systems;Image matching;Local features;Lightweight;Fast},
  doi={10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.00259}}