Title
Accurate and robust feature-based homography estimation using HALF-SIFT and feature localization error weighting.
Abstract
We propose a new accurate and robust feature-based homography estimation method.The HALF-SIFT method is used to extract high accurate local feature.The covariance matrix is used to represent localization error.CW MLESAC and CW L-M methods are proposed to improve accuracy and robustness.Extensive experiments are provided to evaluate the proposed method. The goal of homography estimation is to find global transformation between two images of the same scene taken from different viewpoints. The feature-based homography estimation method uses a local feature extractor, a RANSAC-like method and the Levenberg-Marquardt method to estimate the homography matrix. However, in practical applications, the accuracy and robustness of homography estimation are significantly affected by feature localization error. In this paper, we first use the HALF-SIFT method to compensate for localization error caused by the feature extraction method and use the covariance matrix to represent localization error caused by image noise. Then, we proposed a new inliers selection method named CW MLESAC and a new homography matrix refinement method named CW L-M to improve accuracy and robustness. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more accurate and robust under different noise levels and inlier ratios than state-of-the-art methods such as LMedS, RANSAC, MSAC and MLESAC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jvcir.2016.07.002
J. Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Homography estimation,Feature localization error,Covariance weighted MLESAC,Covariance weighted Levenberg-Marquardt
Computer vision,Scale-invariant feature transform,Weighting,Pattern recognition,RANSAC,Feature extraction,Robustness (computer science),Image noise,Homography,Artificial intelligence,Covariance matrix,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
PA
1047-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunyang Zhao140.73
Huaici Zhao2144.91