Title
Warpnet: Weakly Supervised Matching For Single-View Reconstruction
Abstract
We present an approach to matching images of objects in fine-grained datasets without using part annotations, with an application to the challenging problem of weakly supervised single-view reconstruction. This is in contrast to prior works that require part annotations, since matching objects across class and pose variations is challenging with appearance features alone. We overcome this challenge through a novel deep learning architecture, WarpNet, that aligns an object in one image with a different object in another. We exploit the structure of the fine-grained dataset to create artificial data for training this network in an unsupervised-discriminative learning approach. The output of the network acts as a spatial prior that allows generalization at test time to match real images across variations in appearance, viewpoint and articulation. On the CUB-200-2011 dataset of bird categories, we improve the AP over an appearance-only network by 13.6%. We further demonstrate that our WarpNet matches, together with the structure of fine-grained datasets, allow single-view reconstructions with quality comparable to using annotated point correspondences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CVPR.2016.354
2016 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
abs/1604.05592
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
26
0.75
References 
Authors
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Angjoo Kanazawa127210.36
David W. Jacobs24599348.03
Manmohan Chandraker325021.13