PATS: Patch Area Transportation with Subdivision for Local Feature Matching

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Hauptverfasser: Ni, Junjie, Li, Yijin, Huang, Zhaoyang, Li, Hongsheng, Bao, Hujun, Cui, Zhaopeng, Zhang, Guofeng
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author Ni, Junjie
Li, Yijin
Huang, Zhaoyang
Li, Hongsheng
Bao, Hujun
Cui, Zhaopeng
Zhang, Guofeng
author_facet Ni, Junjie
Li, Yijin
Huang, Zhaoyang
Li, Hongsheng
Bao, Hujun
Cui, Zhaopeng
Zhang, Guofeng
contents Local feature matching aims at establishing sparse correspondences between a pair of images. Recently, detector-free methods present generally better performance but are not satisfactory in image pairs with large scale differences. In this paper, we propose Patch Area Transportation with Subdivision (PATS) to tackle this issue. Instead of building an expensive image pyramid, we start by splitting the original image pair into equal-sized patches and gradually resizing and subdividing them into smaller patches with the same scale. However, estimating scale differences between these patches is non-trivial since the scale differences are determined by both relative camera poses and scene structures, and thus spatially varying over image pairs. Moreover, it is hard to obtain the ground truth for real scenes. To this end, we propose patch area transportation, which enables learning scale differences in a self-supervised manner. In contrast to bipartite graph matching, which only handles one-to-one matching, our patch area transportation can deal with many-to-many relationships. PATS improves both matching accuracy and coverage, and shows superior performance in downstream tasks, such as relative pose estimation, visual localization, and optical flow estimation. The source code is available at \url{https://zju3dv.github.io/pats/}.
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spellingShingle PATS: Patch Area Transportation with Subdivision for Local Feature Matching
Ni, Junjie
Li, Yijin
Huang, Zhaoyang
Li, Hongsheng
Bao, Hujun
Cui, Zhaopeng
Zhang, Guofeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Local feature matching aims at establishing sparse correspondences between a pair of images. Recently, detector-free methods present generally better performance but are not satisfactory in image pairs with large scale differences. In this paper, we propose Patch Area Transportation with Subdivision (PATS) to tackle this issue. Instead of building an expensive image pyramid, we start by splitting the original image pair into equal-sized patches and gradually resizing and subdividing them into smaller patches with the same scale. However, estimating scale differences between these patches is non-trivial since the scale differences are determined by both relative camera poses and scene structures, and thus spatially varying over image pairs. Moreover, it is hard to obtain the ground truth for real scenes. To this end, we propose patch area transportation, which enables learning scale differences in a self-supervised manner. In contrast to bipartite graph matching, which only handles one-to-one matching, our patch area transportation can deal with many-to-many relationships. PATS improves both matching accuracy and coverage, and shows superior performance in downstream tasks, such as relative pose estimation, visual localization, and optical flow estimation. The source code is available at \url{https://zju3dv.github.io/pats/}.
title PATS: Patch Area Transportation with Subdivision for Local Feature Matching
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07700