Learning Data-Adaptive Interest Points through Epipolar Adaptation

Guandao Yang, Tomasz Malisiewicz, Serge Belongie; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2019, pp. 1-7

Abstract


Interest point detection and description have been cornerstones of many computer vision applications. Handcrafted methods like SIFT and ORB focus on generic interest points and do not lend themselves to data-driven adaptation. Recent deep learning models are generally either supervised using expensive 3D information or with synthetic 2D transformations such as homographies that lead to improper handling of nuisance features such as occlusion junctions. In this paper, we propose an alternative form of supervision that leverages the epipolar constraint associated with the fundamental matrix. This approach brings useful 3D information to bear without requiring full depth estimation of all points in the scene. Our proposed approach, Epipolar Adaptation, fine-tunes both the interest point detector and descriptor using a supervision signal provided by the epipolar constraint. We show that our method can improve upon the baseline in a target dataset annotated with epipolar constraints, and the epipolar adapted models learn to remove correspondence involving occlusion junctions correctly.

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@InProceedings{Yang_2019_CVPR_Workshops,
author = {Yang, Guandao and Malisiewicz, Tomasz and Belongie, Serge},
title = {Learning Data-Adaptive Interest Points through Epipolar Adaptation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}