Summary of Deep Homography Estimation For Visual Place Recognition, by Feng Lu et al.
Deep Homography Estimation for Visual Place Recognition
by Feng Lu, Shuting Dong, Lijun Zhang, Bingxi Liu, Xiangyuan Lan, Dongmei Jiang, Chun Yuan
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed transformer-based deep homography estimation (DHE) network is a novel approach to visual place recognition (VPR), which enables fast and learnable geometric verification. By taking the dense feature map extracted by a backbone network as input, DHE fits homography for efficient verification. The method also introduces a re-projection error of inliers loss, allowing for joint training with the backbone network without additional homography labels. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate that DHE outperforms several state-of-the-art methods and is over one order of magnitude faster than mainstream hierarchical VPR methods using RANSAC. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to recognize a place from a photo, like recognizing a familiar building or landmark. This task is important for applications like robots navigating through spaces and virtual reality experiences. Recently, some approaches have been developed that use both global features (like shapes and patterns) and local features (like tiny details). However, these methods often rely on an algorithm called RANSAC to fit a transformation (like a rotation or scaling) between the features. This process can be slow and not easily trainable for machine learning models. The proposed method uses a transformer network that takes in dense feature maps and directly estimates this transformation, making it much faster and more efficient. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Feature map » Machine learning » Transformer
