Title
Image Patch Matching Using Convolutional Descriptors With Euclidean Distance
Abstract
In this work we propose a neural network based image descriptor suitable for image patch matching, which is an important task in many computer vision applications. Our approach is influenced by recent success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in object detection and classification tasks. We develop a model which maps the raw input patch to a low dimensional feature vector so that the distance between representations is small for similar patches and large otherwise. As a distance metric we utilize L-2 norm, i.e. Euclidean distance, which is fast to evaluate and used in most popular hand-crafted descriptors, such as SIFT. According to the results, our approach outperforms state-of-the-art L-2-based descriptors and can be considered as a direct replacement of SIFT. In addition, we conducted experiments with batch normalization and histogram equalization as a preprocessing method of the input data. The results confirm that these techniques further improve the performance of the proposed descriptor. Finally, we show promising preliminary results by appending our CNNs with recently proposed spatial transformer networks and provide a visualisation and interpretation of their impact.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-54526-4_46
COMPUTER VISION - ACCV 2016 WORKSHOPS, PT III
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Journal
10118
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iaroslav Melekhov1213.29
Juho Kannala286760.91
Esa Rahtu383252.76