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(A) A single keypoint candidate in the image; (B–D) SIFT descriptor calculated at different scales of 4, 8, and 10; At each scale, the descriptor has 4 × 4 patches (color coded in yellow), which are rotated to the dominant orientation of the feature point. Each patch is represented in gradient magnitudes of eight directions, represented by yellow arrows inside each bin.
