2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

19-22 September 2021 • Anchorage, Alaska, USA

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

19-22 September 2021 • Anchorage, Alaska, USA

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Paper IDSMR-3.7
Paper Title Local Feature Descriptors with Deep Hypersphere Learning
Authors Song Wang, Xin Guo, Yun Tie, Lin Qi, Zhengzhou University, China; Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada
SessionSMR-3: Image and Video Representation
LocationArea F
Session Time:Tuesday, 21 September, 15:30 - 17:00
Presentation Time:Tuesday, 21 September, 15:30 - 17:00
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Topic Image and Video Sensing, Modeling, and Representation: Image & video representation
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Abstract Recent works have demonstrated the power of $L_2$ normalization in local feature descriptor learning. While the descriptors are typically learned in the Euclidean space, the similarity between descriptors is often evaluated on a unit hypersphere due to the post-processing of $L_2$ normalization for descriptors, which creates a gap between the training stage and the usage stage of feature descriptors. To bridge the gap, we propose a hyperspherical descriptor learning model, where the whole network is projected onto the hyperspherical space. In addition, a squared angular triplet loss is designed to enable the proposed hyperspherical model to learn angularly discriminative descriptors. Experiments on UBC dataset show that the proposed hyperspherical descriptor outperforms its Euclidean counterparts and the state-of-the-art methods on the feature matching task.