Title
Outlier Modeling in Image Matching
Abstract
We address the question of how to characterize the outliers that may appear when matching two views of the same scene. The match is performed by comparing the difference of the two views at a pixel level aiming at a better registration of the images. When using digital photographs as input, we notice that an outlier is often a region that has been occluded, an object that suddenly appears in one of the images, or a region that undergoes an unexpected motion. By assuming that the error in pixel intensity generated by the outlier is similar to an error generated by comparing two random regions in the scene, we can build a model for the outliers based on the content of the two views. We illustrate our model by solving a pose estimation problem: the goal is to compute the camera motion between two views. The matching is expressed as a mixture of inliers versus outliers, and defines a function to minimize for improving the pose estimation. Our model has two benefits: First, it delivers a probability for each pixel to belong to the outliers. Second, our tests show that the method is substantially more robust than traditional robust estimators (M -estimators) used in image stitching applications, with only a slightly higher computational complexity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1182094
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
Keywords
Field
DocType
outlier modeling,better registration,higher computational complexity,unexpected motion,estimation problem,traditional robust estimator,pixel level,image matching,random region,pixel intensity,digital photograph,camera motion,testing,computer vision,pixel,mixture model,pose estimation,layout,robust estimator,motion estimation,computational complexity,data mining,indexing terms
Computer vision,Image stitching,Pattern recognition,Image matching,Computer science,Outlier,Pose,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Mixture model,Computational complexity theory,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
3
0162-8828
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
1.55
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Hasler1301.55
Luciano Sbaiz28411.42
Sabine Süsstrunk34984207.02
Martin Vetterli4139262397.68