Title
Scalable active matching
Abstract
In matching tasks in computer vision, and particularly in real-time tracking from video, there are generally strong priors available on absolute and relative correspondence locations thanks to motion and scene models. While these priors are often partially used post-hoc to resolve matching consensus in algorithms like RANSAC, it was recently shown that fully integrating them in an `Active Matching' (AM) approach permits efficient guided image processing with rigorous decisions guided by Information Theory. AM's weakness was that the overhead induced by intermediate Bayesian updates required meant poor scaling to cases where many correspondences were sought. In this paper we show that relaxation of the rigid probabilistic model of AM, where every feature measurement directly affects the prediction of every other, permits dramatically more scalable operation without affecting accuracy. We take a general graph-theoretic view of the structure of prior information in matching to sparsify and approximate the interconnections. We demonstrate the performance of two variations, CLAM and SubAM, in the context of sequential camera tracking. These algorithms are highly competitive with other techniques at matching hundreds of features per frame while retaining great intuitive appeal and the full probabilistic capability to digest prior information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CVPR.2010.5539788
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bayes methods,graph theory,image matching,information theory,CLAM variation,RANSAC algorithm,SubAM variation,computer vision,graph theory,image processing,information theory,intermediate Bayesian updates,rigid probabilistic model,scalable active matching,sequential camera tracking
Information theory,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,RANSAC,Stereopsis,Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Statistical model,Probabilistic logic,Prior probability,Scalability
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010
1
1063-6919
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-6984-0
12
0.60
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ankur Handa147926.11
Margarita Chli2128353.59
Hauke Strasdat358223.69
Andrew J. Davison46707350.85