2016

PN-Net: Conjoined Triple Deep Network for Learning Local Image Descriptors

Balntas, Vassileios, Johns, Edward, Tang, Lilian et al.

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In this paper we propose a new approach for learning local descriptors for matching image patches.

  • It has recently been demonstrated that descriptors based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) can significantly improve the matching performance.
  • Unfortunately their computational complexity is prohibitive for any practical application.
  • We address this problem and propose a CNN based descriptor with improved matching performance, significantly reduced training and execution time, as well as low dimensionality.

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