Straight line matching method based on line pairs and feature points

Straight line matching is a fundamental task in many applications such as scene matching, stereo vision and sequence images analysis. As individual line segments cannot completely present the information of image and methods based on them are difficult to achieve high matching accuracy, the authors...

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Main Authors: Jiexian Zeng, Liqin Zhan, Xiang Fu, Binbin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-08-01
Series:IET Computer Vision
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2014.0372
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Summary:Straight line matching is a fundamental task in many applications such as scene matching, stereo vision and sequence images analysis. As individual line segments cannot completely present the information of image and methods based on them are difficult to achieve high matching accuracy, the authors propose a straight line matching algorithm based on line pairs and feature points. Extracted lines are clustered into line feature sets according to their spatial proximity and geometric structures. The structural relationship between line pairs, which are selected from the line feature sets, is described by feature vector consisting of length ratio, angle and average gradient. Coarse matching of line segments is achieved by using feature vector as similarity measurement. To eliminate the mismatches in the matched straight lines, the constraints of feature points are employed. The experimental results demonstrate that the authors’ algorithm can successfully match image lines with high accuracy under various image transformations, including scale, illumination changes and viewpoint variations.
ISSN:1751-9632
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