Graph matching is a classical NP-hard problem, and it plays an important role in many applications in computer science. In this paper, we propose an approximate graph matching method. For two graphs to be matched, our method first constructs an association graph with nodes representing the candidate correspondences between the two original graphs. It then constructs an affinity matrix based on the local and global distance information between the original graphs’ nodes. Each element of the matrix represents the mutual consistency of a pair of nodes of the association graph. After simulating random walks on the association graph, a stable quasi-stationary distribution is obtained. With the Hungarian algorithm, our method finally discretizes the distribution to achieve an approximate matching between the two original graphs. Experiments on two commonly used datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on graph matching.
This paper describes an automatic dense correspondence approach to match two given isometric or nearly isometric 3D shapes which have non-rigid deformations. Our method is to improve the described ability of the assignment matrix as much as possible and solve the resolution composed of assignment matrices by using a combinatorial optimization algorithm. First, we construct two linear assignment matrices by using the SHOT and HKS descriptor, which can promote similar points into correspondence. Then, we construct a quadratic assignment matrix by using the heat distribution matrix, which can align a set of pairwise descriptors between a pair of points. In the final, we create a new objective function consisting of three assignment matrices which can adequately describe the matching relationship between points on two non-rigid deformed shapes, and the final optimal solution is obtained by solving the objective function using the projected descent optimization procedure. We show that high-quality dense correspondences can be established for a wide variety of model pairs which may have different poses, surface details. The effectiveness of this method is proven by geodesic error distance statistics from two commonly used datasets with ground truth, and we find that our algorithm is better than other state-of-the-art methods.
Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been studied over decades and starting from conventional local handcrafted methods to CNN-based methods many works have achieved the best performances in retrieval tasks using query expansion, average query expansion, and query fusion techniques. This work presents a novel approach to revisit the large-scale image retrieval benchmarks Oxford building and Paris building using the SIFT and CNN-based approach. In this paper, we have revised two image retrieval methods and combined the approaches for better performance on image retrieval tasks by describing the annotation errors that have not discussed earlier. The new extensive queries were added for each dataset, making it difficult for the retrieval query phase. VGG-16 network used and RootSIFT applied for feature extraction step whereas T-embedding and democratic aggregation applied on the local descriptors. Query expansion which is an extensive technique for retrieval accuracy is used to check the validation of the proposed pipeline, and our framework achieved the state-of-the-art in addressing the retrieval results compared to other CBIR methods.
One of the ways to diagnose cancer is to obtain images of the cells under the microscope through biopsies. Because the images of the stained cells are very complicated, there is a great deal of interference with the doctor's observations. To address this issue, we propose a new method for segmenting glandular cavity from gastric cancer cell images. Our method combines local correntropy-based K-means (LCK) clustering method and morphological operations to divide the image into complete glandular cavity and remove all extra-cavity interference areas. Our method does not require human interaction. The acquired image boundary features and internal information are complete, allowing doctors to diagnose cancer more quickly and efficiently.
Graphic matching is a very critical issue in all aspects of computer vision. In this paper, a new graphics matching algorithm combining shape contexts and reweighted random walks was proposed. On the basis of the local descriptor, shape contexts, the reweighted random walks algorithm was modified to possess stronger robustness and correctness in the final result. Our main process is to use the descriptor of the shape contexts for the random walk on the iteration, of which purpose is to control the random walk probability matrix. We calculate bias matrix by using descriptors and then in the iteration we use it to enhance random walks’ and random jumps' accuracy, finally we get the one-to-one registration result by discretization of the matrix. The algorithm not only preserves the noise robustness of reweighted random walks but also possesses the rotation, translation, scale invariance of shape contexts. Through extensive experiments, based on real images and random synthetic point sets, and comparisons with other algorithms, it is confirmed that this new method can produce excellent results in graphic matching.
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