Publication

Smooth simultaneous structural graph matching and point-set registration

Conference Article

Conference

IAPR Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition (GbRPR)

Edition

8th

Pages

142-151

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20844-7_15

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Abstract

We present a graph matching method that encompasses both a model of structural consistency and a model of geometrical deformations. Our method poses the graph matching problem as one of mixture modelling which is solved using the EM algorithm. The solution is then approximated as a succession of assignment problems which are solved, in a smooth way, using Softassign. Our method allows us to detect outliers in both graphs involved in the matching. Unlike the outlier rejectors such as RANSAC and Graph Transformation Matching, our method is able to refine an initial the tentative correspondence-set in a more flexible way than simply removing spurious correspondences. In the experiments, our method shows a good ratio between effectiveness and computational time compared with other methods inside and outside the graphs’ field.

Categories

computer vision, image matching, pattern matching, pattern recognition.

Author keywords

correspondence problem, expectation maximization, Softassign, affine registration, graph matching

Scientific reference

G. Sanroma, R. Alquézar Mancho and F. Serratosa i Casanelles. Smooth simultaneous structural graph matching and point-set registration, 8th IAPR Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition, 2011, Münster, Germany, in Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition, Vol 6658 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 142-151, 2011, Springer.