Zhao, X., Wu, X., Miao, J., Chen, W., Chen, P. C. Y., & Li, Z. (2022). ALIKE: Accurate and Lightweight Keypoint Detection and Descriptor Extraction. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmm.2022.3155927
Abstract:
Existing methods detect the keypoints in a nondifferentiable way, therefore they can not directly optimize the position of keypoints through back-propagation. To address this issue, we present a partially differentiable keypoint detection module, which outputs accurate sub-pixel keypoints. The reprojection
loss is then proposed to directly optimize these sub-pixel keypoints, and the dispersity peak loss is presented for accurate keypoints regularization. We also extract the descriptors in a subpixel way, and they are trained with the stable neural reprojection error loss. Moreover, a lightweight network is designed for keypoint detection and descriptor extraction, which can run at 95 frames per second for 640x480 images on a commercial GPU. On homography estimation, camera pose estimation, and visual (re-)localization tasks, the proposed method achieves equivalent performance with the state-of-the-art approaches, while greatly
reduces the inference time.
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Funding Info:
This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of
China under Grant No. 61620106012