Title
Shape Matching Through Particle Dynamics Warping
Abstract
Shape matching is fundamental to numerous computer vision algorithms and may be used for similarity determination and registration. Establishing correspondence and measuring similarity between shapes is of great importance. Shape matching often involves simultaneous estimation of both a correspondence and an alignment transformation. Such an estimate is particularly difficult when the alignment transformation is non-linear and so contains a large number of degrees of freedom. We describe a novel approach for shape matching that is based on shape contexts and uses particle dynamics warping to maximize the similarity of shapes while satisfying structural constraints. The approach is based on an iterative solution of a system of first order ordinary differential equations. The main advantage of the proposed approach is its ability to incorporate shape constraints into the matching process. Furthermore, the proposed approach does not require a solution of an optimal assignment problem which is sensitive to outliers, and does not require thin-plate spline warping which is computationally expensive. To illustrate the applicability of our approach we address the problem of offline signature recognition which in contrast to online signature recognition does not provide for a simple parametrization of the signature curves. The proposed approach is evaluated by measuring the precision and recall rates of documents based on signature similarity. To facilitate a realistic evaluation, the signature data we use was collected from real world documents spanning a period of several decades.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/CVPR.2007.383432
2007 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOLS 1-8
Keywords
Field
DocType
handwriting recognition,satisfiability,first order,image registration,computer vision,histograms,iterative methods,differential equations,dynamic programming,assignment problem,ordinary differential equation,computer science,spline,degree of freedom,thin plate spline
Spline (mathematics),Computer vision,Signature recognition,Image warping,Dynamic time warping,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Precision and recall,Handwriting recognition,Assignment problem,Artificial intelligence,Image registration
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2007
1
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gady Agam139143.99
Suneel Suresh2101.30