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Attention-Based Multimodal Image Matching

20 Mar 2021arXiv:2103.11247archive 2025-07-28

Aviad Moreshet, Yosi Keller

We propose an attention-based approach for multimodal image patch matching using a Transformer encoder attending to the feature maps of a multiscale Siamese CNN. Our encoder is shown to efficiently aggregate multiscale image embeddings while emphasizing task-specific appearance-invariant image cues. We also introduce an attention-residual architecture, using a residual connection bypassing the encoder. This additional learning signal facilitates end-to-end training from scratch. Our approach is experimentally shown to achieve new state-of-the-art accuracy on both multimodal and single modality benchmarks, illustrating its general applicability. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first successful implementation of the Transformer encoder architecture to the multimodal image patch matching task.

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Multimodal Patch MatchingPatch Matching

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Multimodal Patch Matching VisNir Multiscale Transformer Encoder FPR95 1.44 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Patch Matching Brown Dataset Multiscale Transformer Encoder FPR95 0.9 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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Absolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerResidual ConnectionSoftmaxTransformer

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