Title
A novel method for graph matching based on belief propagation.
Abstract
Graph matching is a fundamental NP-problem in computer vision and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a robust approximate graph matching method. The match between two graphs is formulated as an optimization problem and a novel energy function that performs random sample consensus (RANSAC) checking on the max-pooled supports is proposed. Then a belief propagation(BP) algorithm, which can assemble the spatial supports of the local neighbors in the context of the given points, is used to minimize the energy function. To achieve the one-to-(at most)-one matching constraint, we present a method for removing bad matches based on the topological structure of the graphs. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art graph matching methods in matching accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.neucom.2018.10.018
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Graph matching,Energy minimization,Random sample consensus,Max-pooled supports,Belief propagation,One-to-one match
Graph,Pattern recognition,RANSAC,Algorithm,Matching (graph theory),Sampling (statistics),Artificial intelligence,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Belief propagation
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
325
0925-2312
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
33
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xue Lin111.03
Dongmei Niu226.44
Xiuyang Zhao37313.60
Bo Yang4228.81
Caiming Zhang544688.19