From 6aa9221e56d8020f456f8fec1d2db1afa8215b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Nunez-Iglesias <juan.n@unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:45:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make sigma optional in hessian_matrix_det

---
 skimage/feature/corner.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/skimage/feature/corner.py b/skimage/feature/corner.py
index 1ed717b0..1c1c636e 100644
--- a/skimage/feature/corner.py
+++ b/skimage/feature/corner.py
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def hessian_matrix(image, sigma=1, mode='constant', cval=0):
     return H_elems
 
 
-def hessian_matrix_det(image, sigma):
+def hessian_matrix_det(image, sigma=1):
     """Computes the approximate Hessian Determinant over an image.
 
     This method uses box filters over integral images to compute the
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ def hessian_matrix_det(image, sigma):
     ----------
     image : array
         The image over which to compute Hessian Determinant.
-    sigma : float
+    sigma : float, optional
         Standard deviation used for the Gaussian kernel, used for the Hessian
         matrix.