Part-Based Probabilistic Point Matching

  • Authors:
  • Graham McNeill;Sethu Vijayakumar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a probabilistic technique for matching partbased shapes. Shapes are represented by unlabeled point sets, so discontinuous boundaries and non-boundary points do not pose a problem. Occlusions and significant dissimilarities between shapes are explained by a 'background model' and hence, their impact on the overall match is limited. Using a part-based model, we can successfully match shapes which differ as a result of independent part transformations a form of variation common amongst real objects of the same class. A greedy algorithm that learns the parts sequentially can be used to estimate the number of parts and the initial parameters for the main algorithm.