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Establishing dense correspondences across image pairs is essential for tasks such as shape reconstruction and robot manipulation. In the challenging setting of matching across different categories, the function of an object, i.e., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Stefan Stojanov , Linan Zhao , Yunzhi Zhang , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Jiajun Wu

Patch-level image representation is very important for object classification and detection, since it is robust to spatial transformation, scale variation, and cluttered background. Many existing methods usually require fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Zilong Huang , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu

We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous deep functional map methods mainly focus on predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Paul Roetzer , Florian Bernard

In this paper, we present a framework for computing dense keypoint correspondences between images under strong scene appearance changes. Traditional methods, based on nearest neighbour search in the feature descriptor space, perform poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Grzegorz Kurzejamski , Jacek Komorowski , Lukasz Dabala , Konrad Czarnota , Simon Lynen , Tomasz Trzcinski

This paper presents a new end-to-end semi-supervised framework to learn a dense keypoint detector using unlabeled multiview images. A key challenge lies in finding the exact correspondences between the dense keypoints in multiple views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zhixuan Yu , Haozheng Yu , Long Sha , Sujoy Ganguly , Hyun Soo Park

Feature matching plays a fundamental role in many computer vision tasks, yet existing methods heavily rely on scarce and clean multi-view image collections, which constrains their generalization to diverse and challenging scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yingping Liang , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Ying Fu

In this work, we propose an unsupervised method for learning dense correspondences between shapes using a recent deep functional map framework. Instead of depending on ground-truth correspondences or the computationally expensive geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mehmet Aygün , Zorah Lähner , Daniel Cremers

We seek a practical method for establishing dense correspondences between two images with similar content, but possibly different 3D scenes. One of the challenges in designing such a system is the local scale differences of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Moria Tau , Tal Hassner

Estimating a depth map from multiple views of a scene is a fundamental task in computer vision. As soon as more than two viewpoints are available, one faces the very basic question how to measure similarity across >2 image patches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Wilfried Hartmann , Silvano Galliani , Michal Havlena , Luc Van Gool , Konrad Schindler

Finding semantic correspondences is a challenging problem. With the breakthrough of CNNs stronger features are available for tasks like classification but not specifically for the requirements of semantic matching. In the following we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Nikolai Ufer , Kam To Lui , Katja Schwarz , Paul Warkentin , Björn Ommer

Dictionary learning and sparse coding have been widely studied as mechanisms for unsupervised feature learning. Unsupervised learning could bring enormous benefit to the processing of hyperspectral images and to other remote sensing data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Joshua Bruton , Hairong Wang

In this paper, we address the problem of landmark-based visual place recognition. In the state-of-the-art method, accurate object proposal algorithms are first leveraged for generating a set of local regions containing particular landmarks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Bo Yang , Jun Li , Xiaosu Xu , Hong Zhang

Finding correspondences between structural entities decomposing images is of high interest for computer vision applications. In particular, we analyze how to accurately track superpixels - visual primitives generated by aggregating adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Pierre-Henri Conze , Florian Tilquin , Mathieu Lamard , Fabrice Heitz , Gwenolé Quellec

Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) methods typically rely on handcrafted visual features or raw RGB values for establishing correspondences between images. These features, while suitable for sparse mapping, often lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Ravi Garg , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

Self-supervised video correspondence learning depends on the ability to accurately associate pixels between video frames that correspond to the same visual object. However, achieving reliable pixel matching without supervision remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zihan Zhou , Changrui Dai , Aibo Song , Xiaolin Fang

The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning of video object segmentation. We develop a unified framework which simultaneously models cross-frame dense correspondence for locally discriminative feature learning and embeds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Yi Yang

We present an unsupervised learning framework for decomposing images into layers of automatically discovered object models. Contrary to recent approaches that model image layers with autoencoder networks, we represent them as explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Tom Monnier , Elliot Vincent , Jean Ponce , Mathieu Aubry

We present a deep learning framework for accurate visual correspondences and demonstrate its effectiveness for both geometric and semantic matching, spanning across rigid motions to intra-class shape or appearance variations. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Christopher B. Choy , JunYoung Gwak , Silvio Savarese , Manmohan Chandraker

We tackle the problem of finding accurate and robust keypoint correspondences between images. We propose a learning-based approach to guide local feature matches via a learned approximate image matching. Our approach can boost the results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 François Darmon , Mathieu Aubry , Pascal Monasse

While self-supervised learning has enabled effective representation learning in the absence of labels, for vision, video remains a relatively untapped source of supervision. To address this, we propose Pixel-level Correspondence (PiCo), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Yash Sharma , Yi Zhu , Chris Russell , Thomas Brox