Geometry-Aware Feature Matching for Large-Scale Structure from Motion

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Main Authors: Chen, Gonglin, Wu, Jinsen, Chen, Haiwei, Teng, Wenbin, Gao, Zhiyuan, Feng, Andrew, Qin, Rongjun, Zhao, Yajie
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author Chen, Gonglin
Wu, Jinsen
Chen, Haiwei
Teng, Wenbin
Gao, Zhiyuan
Feng, Andrew
Qin, Rongjun
Zhao, Yajie
author_facet Chen, Gonglin
Wu, Jinsen
Chen, Haiwei
Teng, Wenbin
Gao, Zhiyuan
Feng, Andrew
Qin, Rongjun
Zhao, Yajie
contents Establishing consistent and dense correspondences across multiple images is crucial for Structure from Motion (SfM) systems. Significant view changes, such as air-to-ground with very sparse view overlap, pose an even greater challenge to the correspondence solvers. We present a novel optimization-based approach that significantly enhances existing feature matching methods by introducing geometry cues in addition to color cues. This helps fill gaps when there is less overlap in large-scale scenarios. Our method formulates geometric verification as an optimization problem, guiding feature matching within detector-free methods and using sparse correspondences from detector-based methods as anchor points. By enforcing geometric constraints via the Sampson Distance, our approach ensures that the denser correspondences from detector-free methods are geometrically consistent and more accurate. This hybrid strategy significantly improves correspondence density and accuracy, mitigates multi-view inconsistencies, and leads to notable advancements in camera pose accuracy and point cloud density. It outperforms state-of-the-art feature matching methods on benchmark datasets and enables feature matching in challenging extreme large-scale settings.
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spellingShingle Geometry-Aware Feature Matching for Large-Scale Structure from Motion
Chen, Gonglin
Wu, Jinsen
Chen, Haiwei
Teng, Wenbin
Gao, Zhiyuan
Feng, Andrew
Qin, Rongjun
Zhao, Yajie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Establishing consistent and dense correspondences across multiple images is crucial for Structure from Motion (SfM) systems. Significant view changes, such as air-to-ground with very sparse view overlap, pose an even greater challenge to the correspondence solvers. We present a novel optimization-based approach that significantly enhances existing feature matching methods by introducing geometry cues in addition to color cues. This helps fill gaps when there is less overlap in large-scale scenarios. Our method formulates geometric verification as an optimization problem, guiding feature matching within detector-free methods and using sparse correspondences from detector-based methods as anchor points. By enforcing geometric constraints via the Sampson Distance, our approach ensures that the denser correspondences from detector-free methods are geometrically consistent and more accurate. This hybrid strategy significantly improves correspondence density and accuracy, mitigates multi-view inconsistencies, and leads to notable advancements in camera pose accuracy and point cloud density. It outperforms state-of-the-art feature matching methods on benchmark datasets and enables feature matching in challenging extreme large-scale settings.
title Geometry-Aware Feature Matching for Large-Scale Structure from Motion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02310