Harris corner detector.

The function runs the Harris corner detector on the image. Similarly to cornerMinEigenVal and cornerEigenValsAndVecs , for each pixel (x, y) it calculates a 2\times2 gradient covariance matrix M^{(x,y)} over a \texttt{blockSize} \times \texttt{blockSize} neighborhood. Then, it computes the following characteristic:

（特征点计算方法）

Corners in the image can be found as the local maxima of this response map.

Parameters

src	Input single-channel 8-bit or floating-point image.
dst	Image to store the Harris detector responses. It has the type CV_32FC1 and the same size as src .
blockSize	Neighborhood size (see the details on cornerEigenValsAndVecs ).
ksize	Aperture parameter for the Sobel operator.
k	Harris detector free parameter. See the formula below.
borderType	Pixel extrapolation method. See cv::BorderTypes.

Determines strong corners on an image.

The function finds the most prominent corners in the image or in the specified image region, as described in [154]

• Function calculates the corner quality measure at every source image pixel using the cornerMinEigenVal or cornerHarris .
• Function performs a non-maximum suppression (the local maximums in 3 x 3 neighborhood are retained).
• The corners with the minimal eigenvalue less than qualityLevel⋅maxx,yqualityMeasureMap(x,y) are rejected.
• The remaining corners are sorted by the quality measure in the descending order.
• Function throws away each corner for which there is a stronger corner at a distance less than maxDistance.

The function can be used to initialize a point-based tracker of an object.

Note

If the function is called with different values A and B of the parameter qualityLevel , and A > B, the vector of returned corners with qualityLevel=A will be the prefix of the output vector with qualityLevel=B .

Parameters

image	Input 8-bit or floating-point 32-bit, single-channel image.
corners	Output vector of detected corners.
maxCorners	Maximum number of corners to return. If there are more corners than are found, the strongest of them is returned. maxCorners <= 0 implies that no limit on the maximum is set and all detected corners are returned.
qualityLevel	Parameter characterizing the minimal accepted quality of image corners. The parameter value is multiplied by the best corner quality measure, which is the minimal eigenvalue (see cornerMinEigenVal ) or the Harris function response (see cornerHarris ). The corners with the quality measure less than the product are rejected. For example, if the best corner has the quality measure = 1500, and the qualityLevel=0.01 , then all the corners with the quality measure less than 15 are rejected.
minDistance	Minimum possible Euclidean distance between the returned corners.
mask	Optional region of interest. If the image is not empty (it needs to have the type CV_8UC1 and the same size as image ), it specifies the region in which the corners are detected.
blockSize	Size of an average block for computing a derivative covariation matrix over each pixel neighborhood. See cornerEigenValsAndVecs .
useHarrisDetector	Parameter indicating whether to use a Harris detector (see cornerHarris) or cornerMinEigenVal.
k	Free parameter of the Harris detector.