Viewpoint Feature Histogram

  • VFH produces a histogram that encodes the geometry of the object and its viewpoint.
  • For every pair of a point and the center of mass, a reference frame is constructed and the three angular variations are computed (a, q, f) and also d which represents distance between (point, center of mass)
  • Another statistical feature is computed between the central viewpoint direction and the normal estimated at each point.
  • The quality of VFH description depends on the quality of the surface normal estimation at each point.