Robust least-squares image matching in the presence of outliers

  • Authors:
  • Patrice Delmas;Georgy Gimel’farb;Al Shorin;John Morris

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • CAIP'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computer analysis of images and patterns
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Although interfering (outlying) details complicate image recognition and retrieval, 'soft masking' of outliers shows considerable promise for robust pixel-by-pixel image matching or reconstruction from principal components (PC). Modeling the differences between two images or between an image and its PC estimate (obtained as a projection onto a subspace of PCs) with a mixed distribution of random noise and outliers, the masks are produced by a simple iterative Expectation-Maximisation based procedure. Experiments with facial images (extracted from the MIT face database) demonstrate the efficiency of this approach.