Matching attributed graphs: 2nd-order probabilities for pruning the search tree

  • Authors:
  • Francesc Serratosa;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. d'Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain;Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IbPRIA'05 Proceedings of the Second Iberian conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A branch-and-bound algorithm for matching Attributed Graphs (AGs) with Second-Order Random Graphs (SORGs) is presented. We show that the search space explored by this algorithm is drastically reduced by using the information of the 2nd-order joint probabilities of vertices of the SORGs. A SORG is a model graph, described elsewhere, that contains 1st and 2nd-order order probabilities of attribute relations between elements for representing a set of AGs compactly. In this work, we have applied SORGs and the reported algorithm to the recognition of real-life objects on images and the results show that the use of 2nd-order relations between vertices is not only useful to decrease the run time but also to increase the correct classification ratio.