Repeatability Is Not Enough: Learning Affine Regions via Discriminability

Dmytro Mishkin, Filip Radenovic, Jiri Matas; The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 284-300

Abstract


A method for learning local affine-covariant regions is presented. We show that maximizing geometric repeatability does not lead to local regions, a.k.a features, that are reliably matched and this necessitates descriptor-based learning. We explore factors that influence such learning and registration: the loss function, descriptor type, geometric parametrization and the trade-off between matchability and geometric accuracy and propose a novel hard negative-constant loss function for learning of affine regions. The affine shape estimator -- AffNet -- trained with the hard negative-constant loss outperforms the state-of-the-art in bag-of-words image retrieval and wide baseline stereo. The proposed training process does not require precisely geometrically aligned patches. The source codes and trained weights are available at https://github.com/ducha-aiki/affnet

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@InProceedings{Mishkin_2018_ECCV,
author = {Mishkin, Dmytro and Radenovic, Filip and Matas, Jiri},
title = {Repeatability Is Not Enough: Learning Affine Regions via Discriminability},
booktitle = {The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}