Title
GIFT: Learning Transformation-Invariant Dense Visual Descriptors via Group CNNs
Abstract
Finding local correspondences between images with different viewpoints requires local descriptors that are robust against geometric transformations. An approach for transformation invariance is to integrate out the transformations by pooling the features extracted from transformed versions of an image. However, the feature pooling may sacrifice the distinctiveness of the resulting descriptors. In this paper, we introduce a novel visual descriptor named Group Invariant Feature Transform (GIFT), which is both discriminative and robust to geometric transformations. The key idea is that the features extracted from the transformed versions of an image can be viewed as a function defined on the group of the transformations. Instead of feature pooling, we use group convolutions to exploit underlying structures of the extracted features on the group, resulting in descriptors that are both discriminative and provably invariant to the group of transformations. Extensive experiments show that GIFT outperforms state-of-the-art methods on several benchmark datasets and practically improves the performance of relative pose estimation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019)
group of transformations,transformation group,transformation groups
Field
DocType
Volume
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Invariant (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Visual descriptors,Machine learning
Conference
32
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1049-5258
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liu, Yuan113.40
Shen, Zehong200.68
Lin, Zhixuan301.01
Peng, Sida440.72
Hujun Bao52801174.65
Xiaowei Zhou649128.91