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Main Authors: Cadar, Felipe, Potje, Guilherme, Martins, Renato, Demonceaux, Cédric, Nascimento, Erickson R.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09533
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author Cadar, Felipe
Potje, Guilherme
Martins, Renato
Demonceaux, Cédric
Nascimento, Erickson R.
author_facet Cadar, Felipe
Potje, Guilherme
Martins, Renato
Demonceaux, Cédric
Nascimento, Erickson R.
contents Visual correspondence is a crucial step in key computer vision tasks, including camera localization, image registration, and structure from motion. The most effective techniques for matching keypoints currently involve using learned sparse or dense matchers, which need pairs of images. These neural networks have a good general understanding of features from both images, but they often struggle to match points from different semantic areas. This paper presents a new method that uses semantic cues from foundation vision model features (like DINOv2) to enhance local feature matching by incorporating semantic reasoning into existing descriptors. Therefore, the learned descriptors do not require image pairs at inference time, allowing feature caching and fast matching using similarity search, unlike learned matchers. We present adapted versions of six existing descriptors, with an average increase in performance of 29% in camera localization, with comparable accuracy to existing matchers as LightGlue and LoFTR in two existing benchmarks. Both code and trained models are available at https://www.verlab.dcc.ufmg.br/descriptors/reasoning_accv24
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spellingShingle Leveraging Semantic Cues from Foundation Vision Models for Enhanced Local Feature Correspondence
Cadar, Felipe
Potje, Guilherme
Martins, Renato
Demonceaux, Cédric
Nascimento, Erickson R.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visual correspondence is a crucial step in key computer vision tasks, including camera localization, image registration, and structure from motion. The most effective techniques for matching keypoints currently involve using learned sparse or dense matchers, which need pairs of images. These neural networks have a good general understanding of features from both images, but they often struggle to match points from different semantic areas. This paper presents a new method that uses semantic cues from foundation vision model features (like DINOv2) to enhance local feature matching by incorporating semantic reasoning into existing descriptors. Therefore, the learned descriptors do not require image pairs at inference time, allowing feature caching and fast matching using similarity search, unlike learned matchers. We present adapted versions of six existing descriptors, with an average increase in performance of 29% in camera localization, with comparable accuracy to existing matchers as LightGlue and LoFTR in two existing benchmarks. Both code and trained models are available at https://www.verlab.dcc.ufmg.br/descriptors/reasoning_accv24
title Leveraging Semantic Cues from Foundation Vision Models for Enhanced Local Feature Correspondence
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09533