AAPMatcher: Adaptive attention pruning matcher for accurate local feature matching

IF 6 1区 计算机科学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Xuan Fan , Sijia Liu , Shuaiyan Liu , Lijun Zhao , Ruifeng Li
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Abstract

Local feature matching, which seeks to establish correspondences between two images, serves as a fundamental component in numerous computer vision applications, such as camera tracking and 3D mapping. Recently, Transformer has demonstrated remarkable capability in modeling accurate correspondences for the two input sequences owing to its long-range context integration capability. Whereas, indiscriminate modeling in traditional transformers inevitably introduces noise and includes irrelevant information which can degrade the quality of feature representations. Towards this end, we introduce an adaptive attention pruning matcher for accurate local feature matching (AAPMatcher), which is designed for robust and accurate local feature matching. We overhaul the traditional uniform feature extraction for sequences by introducing the adaptive pruned transformer (APFormer), which adaptively retains the most profitable attention values for feature consolidation, enabling the network to obtain more useful feature information while filtering out useless information. Moreover, considering the fixed combination of self- and cross-APFormer greatly limits the flexibility of the network, we propose a two-stage adaptive hybrid attention strategy (AHAS), which achieves the optimal combination for APFormers in a coarse to fine manner. Benefiting from the clean feature representations and the optimal combination of APFormers, AAPMatcher exceeds the state-of-the-art approaches over multiple benchmarks, including pose estimation, homography estimation, and visual localization.
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Neural Networks
Neural Networks 工程技术-计算机:人工智能
CiteScore
13.90
自引率
7.70%
发文量
425
审稿时长
67 days
期刊介绍: Neural Networks is a platform that aims to foster an international community of scholars and practitioners interested in neural networks, deep learning, and other approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our journal invites submissions covering various aspects of neural networks research, from computational neuroscience and cognitive modeling to mathematical analyses and engineering applications. By providing a forum for interdisciplinary discussions between biology and technology, we aim to encourage the development of biologically-inspired artificial intelligence.
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