E3CM: Epipolar-constrained cascade correspondence matching
Chenbo Zhou
Shuai Su
Qijun Chen
Rui Fan
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Abstract

Accurate and robust correspondence matching is of utmost importance for various 3D computer vision tasks. However, traditional explicit programming-based methods often struggle to handle challenging scenarios, and deep learning-based methods require large well-labeled datasets for network training. In this article, we introduce Epipolar-Constrained Cascade Correspondence (E3CM), a novel approach that addresses these limitations. Unlike traditional methods, E3CM leverages pre-trained convolutional neural networks to match correspondence, without requiring annotated data for any network training or fine-tuning. Our method utilizes epipolar constraints to guide the matching process and incorporates a cascade structure for progressive refinement of matches. We extensively evaluate the performance of E3CM through comprehensive experiments and demonstrate its superiority over existing methods..



Paper

Zhou, C., Su, S., Chen, Q., & Fan, R.
E3CM: Epipolar-constrained cascade correspondence matching



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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2020AAA0108100, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62233013, the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipal, China under Grant 22511104500, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China.