A hierarchical non-parametric method for capturing non-rigid deformations

  • Authors:
  • Ady Ecker;Shimon Ullman

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Canada;Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a novel approach for measuring image similarity based on the composition of parts. The measure identifies common sub-regions between the images at multiple sizes, and evaluates the amount of deformation required to align the common regions. The scheme allows complex, non-rigid deformation of the images, and penalizes irregular deformations more than coherent shifts of larger sub-parts. The measure is implemented by an algorithm which is a variant of dynamic programming, extended to multi-dimensions, and is using scores measured on a relative scale. The similarity measure is shown to be robust to non-rigid deformations of parts at various positions and scales, and to capture basic characteristics of human similarity judgments.