Repetitive shapes detection using affine invariant constraints

摘要

This paper presents a novel approach for finding more accurate feature pairs which is not only invariant to affine transformation, but also deals with images with repetitive shapes. First, the more accurate and robust homographic transformation between different views could be calculated through bi-directional matching and appropriate selection of threshold. Second, an affine geometric property, ratios of areas of corresponding triangles are affine invariant, is used to obtain more feature pairs based on the first step. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-art ASIFT in the number of correct feature pairs and matching accuracy among images with repetitive patterns.