HomoMatcher: Dense Feature Matching Results with Semi-Dense Efficiency by Homography Estimation
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| author | Wang, Xiaolong Yu, Lei Zhang, Yingying Lao, Jiangwei Ru, Lixiang Zhong, Liheng Chen, Jingdong Zhang, Yu Yang, Ming |
| author_facet | Wang, Xiaolong Yu, Lei Zhang, Yingying Lao, Jiangwei Ru, Lixiang Zhong, Liheng Chen, Jingdong Zhang, Yu Yang, Ming |
| contents | Feature matching between image pairs is a fundamental problem in computer vision that drives many applications, such as SLAM. Recently, semi-dense matching approaches have achieved substantial performance enhancements and established a widely-accepted coarse-to-fine paradigm. However, the majority of existing methods focus on improving coarse feature representation rather than the fine-matching module. Prior fine-matching techniques, which rely on point-to-patch matching probability expectation or direct regression, often lack precision and do not guarantee the continuity of feature points across sequential images. To address this limitation, this paper concentrates on enhancing the fine-matching module in the semi-dense matching framework. We employ a lightweight and efficient homography estimation network to generate the perspective mapping between patches obtained from coarse matching. This patch-to-patch approach achieves the overall alignment of two patches, resulting in a higher sub-pixel accuracy by incorporating additional constraints. By leveraging the homography estimation between patches, we can achieve a dense matching result with low computational cost. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves higher accuracy compared to previous semi-dense matchers. Meanwhile, our dense matching results exhibit similar end-point-error accuracy compared to previous dense matchers while maintaining semi-dense efficiency. |
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| spellingShingle | HomoMatcher: Dense Feature Matching Results with Semi-Dense Efficiency by Homography Estimation Wang, Xiaolong Yu, Lei Zhang, Yingying Lao, Jiangwei Ru, Lixiang Zhong, Liheng Chen, Jingdong Zhang, Yu Yang, Ming Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Feature matching between image pairs is a fundamental problem in computer vision that drives many applications, such as SLAM. Recently, semi-dense matching approaches have achieved substantial performance enhancements and established a widely-accepted coarse-to-fine paradigm. However, the majority of existing methods focus on improving coarse feature representation rather than the fine-matching module. Prior fine-matching techniques, which rely on point-to-patch matching probability expectation or direct regression, often lack precision and do not guarantee the continuity of feature points across sequential images. To address this limitation, this paper concentrates on enhancing the fine-matching module in the semi-dense matching framework. We employ a lightweight and efficient homography estimation network to generate the perspective mapping between patches obtained from coarse matching. This patch-to-patch approach achieves the overall alignment of two patches, resulting in a higher sub-pixel accuracy by incorporating additional constraints. By leveraging the homography estimation between patches, we can achieve a dense matching result with low computational cost. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves higher accuracy compared to previous semi-dense matchers. Meanwhile, our dense matching results exhibit similar end-point-error accuracy compared to previous dense matchers while maintaining semi-dense efficiency. |
| title | HomoMatcher: Dense Feature Matching Results with Semi-Dense Efficiency by Homography Estimation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06700 |