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Deep Shape Matching

11 Sep 2017ECCV 2018 9arXiv:1709.03409archive 2025-07-28

Filip Radenović, Giorgos Tolias, Ondřej Chum

We cast shape matching as metric learning with convolutional networks. We break the end-to-end process of image representation into two parts. Firstly, well established efficient methods are chosen to turn the images into edge maps. Secondly, the network is trained with edge maps of landmark images, which are automatically obtained by a structure-from-motion pipeline. The learned representation is evaluated on a range of different tasks, providing improvements on challenging cases of domain generalization, generic sketch-based image retrieval or its fine-grained counterpart. In contrast to other methods that learn a different model per task, object category, or domain, we use the same network throughout all our experiments, achieving state-of-the-art results in multiple benchmarks.

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Domain GeneralizationImage RetrievalMetric LearningRetrievalSketch-Based Image Retrieval

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Chairs EdgeMAC + whitening R@1 85.6 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Chairs EdgeMAC + whitening R@10 97.9 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Handbags EdgeMAC + whitening R@1 51.2 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Handbags EdgeMAC + whitening R@10 85.7 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Shoes EdgeMAC + whitening R@1 54.8 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Sketch-Based Image Retrieval Shoes EdgeMAC + whitening R@10 92.2 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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