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SEKD: Self-Evolving Keypoint Detection and Description

9 Jun 2020arXiv:2006.05077archive 2025-07-28

Yafei Song, Ling Cai, Jia Li, Yonghong Tian, Mingyang Li

Researchers have attempted utilizing deep neural network (DNN) to learn novel local features from images inspired by its recent successes on a variety of vision tasks. However, existing DNN-based algorithms have not achieved such remarkable progress that could be partly attributed to insufficient utilization of the interactive characters between local feature detector and descriptor. To alleviate these difficulties, we emphasize two desired properties, i.e., repeatability and reliability, to simultaneously summarize the inherent and interactive characters of local feature detector and descriptor. Guided by these properties, a self-supervised framework, namely self-evolving keypoint detection and description (SEKD), is proposed to learn an advanced local feature model from unlabeled natural images. Additionally, to have performance guarantees, novel training strategies have also been dedicatedly designed to minimize the gap between the learned feature and its properties. We benchmark the proposed method on homography estimation, relative pose estimation, and structure-from-motion tasks. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms popular hand-crafted and DNN-based methods by remarkable margins. Ablation studies also verify the effectiveness of each critical training strategy. We will release our code along with the trained model publicly.

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