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Point-pattern matching based on point pair local topology and probabilistic relaxation labeling

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This paper presents a robust point-pattern matching (PPM) algorithm, in which the invariant feature and probabilistic relaxation labeling are combined to improve the assignment accuracy and efficiency. A local feature descriptor, namely, point pair local topology (PPLT), is proposed first. The feature descriptor is defined by histogram which is constructed using the weighting of distance measures and angle measures based on local point pair. We use the matching scores of point pair local topology descriptor’s statistic test to define new compatibility coefficients. Then, the robust support functions are constructed based on the obtained compatibility coefficients. Finally, according to the relaxed iterations of matching probability matrix and the mapping constraints required by the bijective correspondence, the correct matching results are obtained. A number of comparison and evaluation experiments on both synthetic point sets and real-world data demonstrate that the proposed algorithm performs better in the presence of outliers and positional jitter. In addition, it achieves the superior performance under similarity and even nonrigid transformation among point sets in the meantime compared with state-of-the-art approaches.

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Deng, W., Zou, H., Guo, F. et al. Point-pattern matching based on point pair local topology and probabilistic relaxation labeling. Vis Comput 34, 55–65 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-016-1311-3

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