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Beyond outlier removal: Integrated ensemble matching for accurate image keypoint correspondence

24 Mar 2025Knowledge-Based Systems 2025 3archive 2025-07-28

Javid Norouzi, Mohammad Sadegh Helfroush, Alireza Liaghat, Habibollah Danyali

This paper presents a novel two-tier matching approach for robust feature correspondence and geometric transformation estimation in computer vision tasks. Our method combines sub-descriptor matching and multi-descriptor ensembling to significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of keypoint correspondences across images. Our approach is evaluated on both classic hand-crafted algorithms and deep learning-based methods using the HPatches, IMC2022, and YFCC100M datasets. We use a pretrained network and enhance it to incorporate additional descriptor heads optimized for our matching strategy. The two-tier matching strategy enables direct geometric transformation estimation without separate outlier removal in many cases, potentially streamlining computer vision pipelines. Results demonstrate that our approach substantially outperforms traditional single-descriptor methods, achieving over 95% correct matches for classic algorithm combinations and up to 96% for our enhanced learning-based approaches. Our approach can establish reliable correspondences without making any assumption about the mathematical relation between the matches. Additionally, we explore applications of our method in scene matching.

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