Overview of approaches for accelerating scale invariant feature detection algorithm

SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) is one of most popular approach for feature detection and matching. Many parallelized algorithms have been proposed to accelerate SIFT to apply into real-time systems. This paper divides the researches into three different categories, that is, optimizing parallel algorithms based on general purpose multi-core processors, designing customized multi-core processor dedicated for SIFT and implementing SIFT based FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). Overview of the three type researches and analysis of task-level parallelism are presented in this paper.