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While modelling spatially uniform or low-order polynomial contrast and offset changes is mostly a solved problem, there has been limited progress in models which could represent highly inhomogeneous photometric variations. A recent quadratic programming (QP) based matching allows for almost arbitrary photometric deviations. However this QP-based approach is deficient in one substantial respect: it can only assume that images are aligned geometrically as it knows nothing about geometry in general. This paper improves on the QP-based framework by extending it to include a robust rigid registration layer thus increasing both its generality and practical utility. The proposed method shows up to 4 times improvement in the quadratic matching score over a current state-of-the-art benchmark.
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Shorin, A., Gimel’farb, G., Delmas, P., Riddle, P. (2010). Constraint Optimisation for Robust Image Matching with Inhomogeneous Photometric Variations and Affine Noise. In: Blanc-Talon, J., Bone, D., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (eds) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. ACIVS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6474. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17688-3_44
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