Measuring rail profile in the presence of multiple degrees of freedom vibration is a very challenging task. This paper presents a novel method based on the local affine invariant feature descriptor to calibrate distorted profiles, which are obtained by traditional rail measurement system. It has three major modules: local affine invariant (LAI) feature descriptor, affine transformation estimation and parameters refinement. LAI feature descriptor is based on the affine geometry invariant and generated by calculating the proportions of different areas. Using the proposed LAI descriptor, we imple...
