Aligning images in the wild

• Main Authors: LIN, Wen-yan, LIU, Linlin, MATSUSHITA, Yasuyuki, LOW, Kok-Lim, LIU, Siying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces; Programming Languages and Compilers
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4807; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5810/viewcontent/10.1.1.227.4441.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Aligning image pairs with significant appearance change is a long standing computer vision challenge. Much of this problem stems from the local patch descriptors’ instability to appearance variation. In this paper we suggest this instability is due less to descriptor corruption and more the difficul...