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COTR: Correspondence Transformer for Matching Across Images

25 Mar 2021ICCV 2021 10arXiv:2103.14167archive 2025-07-28

Wei Jiang, Eduard Trulls, Jan Hosang, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Kwang Moo Yi

We propose a novel framework for finding correspondences in images based on a deep neural network that, given two images and a query point in one of them, finds its correspondence in the other. By doing so, one has the option to query only the points of interest and retrieve sparse correspondences, or to query all points in an image and obtain dense mappings. Importantly, in order to capture both local and global priors, and to let our model relate between image regions using the most relevant among said priors, we realize our network using a transformer. At inference time, we apply our correspondence network by recursively zooming in around the estimates, yielding a multiscale pipeline able to provide highly-accurate correspondences. Our method significantly outperforms the state of the art on both sparse and dense correspondence problems on multiple datasets and tasks, ranging from wide-baseline stereo to optical flow, without any retraining for a specific dataset. We commit to releasing data, code, and all the tools necessary to train from scratch and ensure reproducibility.

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Dense Pixel Correspondence EstimationOptical Flow Estimation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation ETH3D COTR AEPE (rate=3) 1.66 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation ETH3D COTR +Interp. AEPE (rate=5) 1.71 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR PCK-1px 40.91 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR PCK-3px 82.37 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR PCK-5px 91.1 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR Viewpoint I AEPE 7.75 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR +Interp. PCK-1px 33.08 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR +Interp. PCK-3px 77.09 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR +Interp. PCK-5px 86.33 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation HPatches COTR +Interp. Viewpoint I AEPE 7.98 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation KITTI 2012 COTR Average End-Point Error 1.28 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation KITTI 2012 COTR +Interp. Average End-Point Error 2.62 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation KITTI 2015 COTR Average End-Point Error 2.26 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Dense Pixel Correspondence Estimation KITTI 2015 COTR +Interp. Average End-Point Error 6.12 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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