Hessian affine region detector
| Feature detection | 
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| Edge detection | 
| Corner detection | 
| Blob detection | 
| Ridge detection | 
| Hough transform | 
| Structure tensor | 
| Affine invariant feature detection | 
| Feature description | 
| Scale space | 
The Hessian affine region detector is a feature detector used in the fields of computer vision and image analysis. Like other feature detectors, the Hessian affine detector is typically used as a preprocessing step to algorithms that rely on identifiable, characteristic interest points.
The Hessian affine detector is part of the subclass of feature detectors known as affine-invariant detectors: Harris affine region detector, Hessian affine regions, maximally stable extremal regions, Kadir–Brady saliency detector, edge-based regions (EBR) and intensity-extrema-based (IBR) regions.