Title
Structurally refined feature matching for multi-source images
Abstract
In this paper we consider the problem of matching feature points between multi-source images. Straightforwardly comparing visual features such as SIFT may result in desirable local feature correspondences for single-source images. However, when it comes to matching feature between multi-source images, e.g. between an RGB color image and an infrared image, the feature based matching scheme tends to yield certain mismatches. To address this shortcoming, we develop a structural constraint for refining the multi-source feature matching performance. Our structural refinement rejects the small number of mismatches which contradict the spatial consistency that the large number of correct matches follow. The key to the effectiveness of our method is the observation that correct matches turn out to form a tight cluster in a subspace spanned in the light of the spatial relationships of feature points; on the other hand, the mismatches are generally located far away from the cluster as outliers in the subspace. Experimental results validate that our method not only properly refines the feature correspondences between multi-source images, but also outperforms alternative state-of-the-art cross-field matching methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MFI.2014.6997709
MFI
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature extraction,graph theory,image colour analysis,image matching,rgb color image,sift,infrared image,multisource feature matching,multisource images,spatial consistency,structural constraint,structural refinement,visual feature,feature based matching,graph matching,multi-source image processing
Template matching,Computer vision,Feature detection (computer vision),Pattern recognition,Feature (computer vision),Scale space,Feature extraction,Feature matching,Artificial intelligence,Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi feature tracker,Multi-source,Mathematics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Du100.34
Yanjiang Wang2158.65
Peng Ren318036.90