This paper presents a self-supervised framework for training interest point detectors and descriptors suitable for a large number of multiple-view geometry problems in computer vision. As opposed to patch-based neural networks, our fully-convolutional model operates on full-sized images and jointly computes pixel-level interest point locations and associated descriptors in one forward pass. We introduce Homographic Adaptation, a multi-scale, multihomography approach for boosting interest point detection repeatability and performing cross-domain adaptation (e.g., synthetic-to-real). Our model, when trained on the MS-COCO generic image dataset using Homographic Adaptation, is able to repeatedly detect a much richer set of interest points than the initial pre-adapted deep model and any other traditional corner detector. The final system gives rise to state-of-the-art homography estimation results on HPatches when compared to LIFT, SIFT and ORB.

This paper introduces SuperGlue, a neural network that matches two sets of local features by jointly finding correspondences and rejecting non-matchable points. Assignments are estimated by solving a differentiable optimal transport problem, whose costs are predicted by a graph neural network. We introduce a flexible context aggregation mechanism based on attention, enabling SuperGlue to reason about the underlying 3D scene and feature assignments jointly. Compared to traditional, hand-designed heuristics, our technique learns priors over geometric transformations and regularities of the 3D world through end-to-end training from image pairs. SuperGlue outperforms other learned approaches and achieves state-of-the-art results on the task of pose estimation in challenging real-world indoor and outdoor environments. The proposed method performs matching in real-time on a modern GPU and can be readily integrated into modern SfM or SLAM systems. The code and trained weights are publicly available at github.com/magicleap/SuperGluePretrainedNetwork.

关键点检测和描述是计算机视觉系统中常用的构建块，特别是用于机器人和自主驾驶。然而，大多数迄今为止的技术都集中在标准相机上，几乎没有考虑到Fisheye相机，这些摄像机通常用于城市驾驶和自动停车处。在本文中，我们提出了一种用于鱼眼图像的新型培训和评估管道。我们利用SuperPoint作为我们的基线，这是一个自我监督的Keypoint检测器和描述符，该探测器和描述符已经实现了最先进的同位估计。我们介绍了一种Fisheye适应管道，以便在未造成的Fisheye图像上培训。我们通过在牛津机Robotcar数据集上引入用于检测可重复性和描述符的鱼眼基于评估方法来评估HPAPTES基准测试的性能。

尽管提取了通过手工制作和基于学习的描述符实现的本地特征的进步，但它们仍然受到不符合非刚性转换的不变性的限制。在本文中，我们提出了一种计算来自静止图像的特征的新方法，该特征对于非刚性变形稳健，以避免匹配可变形表面和物体的问题。我们的变形感知当地描述符，命名优惠，利用极性采样和空间变压器翘曲，以提供旋转，尺度和图像变形的不变性。我们通过将等距非刚性变形应用于模拟环境中的对象作为指导来提供高度辨别的本地特征来培训模型架构端到端。该实验表明，我们的方法优于静止图像中的实际和现实合成可变形对象的不同数据集中的最先进的手工制作，基于学习的图像和RGB-D描述符。描述符的源代码和培训模型在https://www.verlab.dcc.ufmg.br/descriptors/neUrips2021上公开可用。

Local feature detection is a key ingredient of many image processing and computer vision applications, such as visual odometry and localization. Most existing algorithms focus on feature detection from a sharp image. They would thus have degraded performance once the image is blurred, which could happen easily under low-lighting conditions. To address this issue, we propose a simple yet both efficient and effective keypoint detection method that is able to accurately localize the salient keypoints in a blurred image. Our method takes advantages of a novel multi-layer perceptron (MLP) based architecture that significantly improve the detection repeatability for a blurred image. The network is also light-weight and able to run in real-time, which enables its deployment for time-constrained applications. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our detector is able to improve the detection repeatability with blurred images, while keeping comparable performance as existing state-of-the-art detectors for sharp images.

We introduce a novel Deep Network architecture that implements the full feature point handling pipeline, that is, detection, orientation estimation, and feature description. While previous works have successfully tackled each one of these problems individually, we show how to learn to do all three in a unified manner while preserving end-to-end differentiability. We then demonstrate that our Deep pipeline outperforms state-of-the-art methods on a number of benchmark datasets, without the need of retraining.

小天体的任务在很大程度上依赖于光学特征跟踪，以表征和相对导航。尽管深度学习导致了功能检测和描述方面的巨大进步，但由于大规模，带注释的数据集的可用性有限，因此培训和验证了空间应用程序的数据驱动模型具有挑战性。本文介绍了Astrovision，这是一个大规模数据集，由115,970个密集注释的，真实的图像组成，这些图像是过去和正在进行的任务中捕获的16个不同物体的真实图像。我们利用Astrovision开发一组标准化基准，并对手工和数据驱动的功能检测和描述方法进行详尽的评估。接下来，我们采用Astrovision对最先进的，深刻的功能检测和描述网络进行端到端培训，并在多个基准测试中表现出改善的性能。将公开使用完整的基准管道和数据集，以促进用于空间应用程序的计算机视觉算法的发展。

在本文中，我们解决了估算图像之间尺度因子的问题。我们制定规模估计问题作为对尺度因素的概率分布的预测。我们设计了一种新的架构，ScaleNet，它利用扩张的卷积以及自我和互相关层来预测图像之间的比例。我们展示了具有估计尺度的整流图像导致各种任务和方法的显着性能改进。具体而言，我们展示了ScaleNet如何与稀疏的本地特征和密集的通信网络组合，以改善不同的基准和数据集中的相机姿势估计，3D重建或密集的几何匹配。我们对多项任务提供了广泛的评估，并分析了标准齿的计算开销。代码，评估协议和培训的型号在https://github.com/axelbarroso/scalenet上公开提供。

Sparse local feature extraction is usually believed to be of important significance in typical vision tasks such as simultaneous localization and mapping, image matching and 3D reconstruction. At present, it still has some deficiencies needing further improvement, mainly including the discrimination power of extracted local descriptors, the localization accuracy of detected keypoints, and the efficiency of local feature learning. This paper focuses on promoting the currently popular sparse local feature learning with camera pose supervision. Therefore, it pertinently proposes a Shared Coupling-bridge scheme with four light-weight yet effective improvements for weakly-supervised local feature (SCFeat) learning. It mainly contains: i) the \emph{Feature-Fusion-ResUNet Backbone} (F2R-Backbone) for local descriptors learning, ii) a shared coupling-bridge normalization to improve the decoupling training of description network and detection network, iii) an improved detection network with peakiness measurement to detect keypoints and iv) the fundamental matrix error as a reward factor to further optimize feature detection training. Extensive experiments prove that our SCFeat improvement is effective. It could often obtain a state-of-the-art performance on classic image matching and visual localization. In terms of 3D reconstruction, it could still achieve competitive results. For sharing and communication, our source codes are available at https://github.com/sunjiayuanro/SCFeat.git.

我们提出了一种称为DPODV2（密集姿势对象检测器）的三个阶段6 DOF对象检测方法，该方法依赖于致密的对应关系。我们将2D对象检测器与密集的对应关系网络和多视图姿势细化方法相结合，以估计完整的6 DOF姿势。与通常仅限于单眼RGB图像的其他深度学习方法不同，我们提出了一个统一的深度学习网络，允许使用不同的成像方式（RGB或DEPTH）。此外，我们提出了一种基于可区分渲染的新型姿势改进方法。主要概念是在多个视图中比较预测并渲染对应关系，以获得与所有视图中预测的对应关系一致的姿势。我们提出的方法对受控设置中的不同数据方式和培训数据类型进行了严格的评估。主要结论是，RGB在对应性估计中表现出色，而如果有良好的3D-3D对应关系，则深度有助于姿势精度。自然，他们的组合可以实现总体最佳性能。我们进行广泛的评估和消融研究，以分析和验证几个具有挑战性的数据集的结果。 DPODV2在所有这些方面都取得了出色的成果，同时仍然保持快速和可扩展性，独立于使用的数据模式和培训数据的类型

We introduce a lightweight network to improve descriptors of keypoints within the same image. The network takes the original descriptors and the geometric properties of keypoints as the input, and uses an MLP-based self-boosting stage and a Transformer-based cross-boosting stage to enhance the descriptors. The enhanced descriptors can be either real-valued or binary ones. We use the proposed network to boost both hand-crafted (ORB, SIFT) and the state-of-the-art learning-based descriptors (SuperPoint, ALIKE) and evaluate them on image matching, visual localization, and structure-from-motion tasks. The results show that our method significantly improves the performance of each task, particularly in challenging cases such as large illumination changes or repetitive patterns. Our method requires only 3.2ms on desktop GPU and 27ms on embedded GPU to process 2000 features, which is fast enough to be applied to a practical system.

Line segments are ubiquitous in our human-made world and are increasingly used in vision tasks. They are complementary to feature points thanks to their spatial extent and the structural information they provide. Traditional line detectors based on the image gradient are extremely fast and accurate, but lack robustness in noisy images and challenging conditions. Their learned counterparts are more repeatable and can handle challenging images, but at the cost of a lower accuracy and a bias towards wireframe lines. We propose to combine traditional and learned approaches to get the best of both worlds: an accurate and robust line detector that can be trained in the wild without ground truth lines. Our new line segment detector, DeepLSD, processes images with a deep network to generate a line attraction field, before converting it to a surrogate image gradient magnitude and angle, which is then fed to any existing handcrafted line detector. Additionally, we propose a new optimization tool to refine line segments based on the attraction field and vanishing points. This refinement improves the accuracy of current deep detectors by a large margin. We demonstrate the performance of our method on low-level line detection metrics, as well as on several downstream tasks using multiple challenging datasets. The source code and models are available at https://github.com/cvg/DeepLSD.

在许多计算机视觉管道中，在图像之间建立一组稀疏的关键点相关性是一项基本任务。通常，这转化为一个计算昂贵的最近邻居搜索，必须将一个图像的每个键盘描述符与其他图像的所有描述符进行比较。为了降低匹配阶段的计算成本，我们提出了一个能够检测到每个图像处的互补关键集的深度提取网络。由于仅需要在不同图像上比较同一组中的描述符，因此匹配相计算复杂度随集合数量而降低。我们训练我们的网络以预测关键点并共同计算相应的描述符。特别是，为了学习互补的关键点集，我们引入了一种新颖的无监督损失，对不同集合之间的交叉点进行了惩罚。此外，我们提出了一种基于描述符的新型加权方案，旨在惩罚使用非歧视性描述符的关键点的检测。通过广泛的实验，我们表明，我们的功能提取网络仅在合成的扭曲图像和完全无监督的方式进行训练，以降低匹配的复杂性，在3D重建和重新定位任务上取得了竞争成果。

对应匹配是计算机视觉和机器人技术应用中的一个基本问题。最近使用神经网络解决对应匹配问题最近正在上升。旋转等级和比例等级性在对应匹配应用中都至关重要。经典的对应匹配方法旨在承受缩放和旋转转换。但是，使用卷积神经网络（CNN）提取的功能仅在一定程度上是翻译等值的。最近，研究人员一直在努力改善基于群体理论的CNN的旋转均衡性。 SIM（2）是2D平面中的相似性转换组。本文介绍了专门用于评估SIM（2） - 等级对应算法的专门数据集。我们比较了16个最先进（SOTA）对应匹配方法的性能。实验结果表明，在各种SIM（2）转换条件下，组模棱两可算法对于对应匹配的重要性。由于基于CNN的对应匹配方法达到的子像素精度不令人满意，因此该特定领域需要在未来的工作中获得更多关注。我们的数据集可公开可用：mias.group/sim2e。

面部特征跟踪是成像跳芭式（BCG）的关键组成部分，其中需要精确定量面部关键点的位移，以获得良好的心率估计。皮肤特征跟踪能够在帕金森病中基于视频的电机降解量化。传统的计算机视觉算法包括刻度不变特征变换（SIFT），加速强大的功能（冲浪）和LUCAS-KANADE方法（LK）。这些长期代表了最先进的效率和准确性，但是当存在常见的变形时，如图所示，如图所示，如此。在过去的五年中，深度卷积神经网络对大多数计算机视觉任务的传统方法表现优于传统的传统方法。我们提出了一种用于特征跟踪的管道，其应用卷积堆积的AutoEncoder，以将图像中最相似的裁剪标识到包含感兴趣的特征的参考裁剪。 AutoEncoder学会将图像作物代表到特定于对象类别的深度特征编码。我们在面部图像上培训AutoEncoder，并验证其在手动标记的脸部和手视频中通常验证其跟踪皮肤功能的能力。独特的皮肤特征（痣）的跟踪误差是如此之小，因为我们不能排除他们基于$ \ chi ^ 2 $ -test的手动标签。对于0.6-4.2像素的平均误差，我们的方法在所有情况下都表现出了其他方法。更重要的是，我们的方法是唯一一个不分歧的方法。我们得出的结论是，我们的方法为特征跟踪，特征匹配和图像配准比传统算法创建更好的特征描述符。

对于视网膜图像匹配（RIM），我们提出了SuperRetina，这是第一个具有可训练的键盘检测器和描述符的端到端方法。 SuperRetina以一种新颖的半监督方式接受了训练。一小部分（近100张）图像未完全标记，并用于监督网络以检测血管树上的关键点。为了攻击手动标记的不完整性，我们提出了进行性逐步扩展，以丰富每个训练时期的关键点标签。通过利用基于关键的改进的三重态损失作为描述损失，超级逆局以完全输入图像大小产生高度歧视性描述符。在多个现实世界数据集上进行了广泛的实验证明了超级丽菌的生存能力。即使手动标记被自动标记取代，因此使训练过程完全免费手动通道，超级retina也可以与多个强大的基线进行比较，以进行两个RIM任务，即图像注册和身份验证。 SuperRetina将是开源。

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end framework that jointly learns keypoint detection, descriptor representation and cross-frame matching for the task of image-based 3D localization. Prior art has tackled each of these components individually, purportedly aiming to alleviate difficulties in effectively train a holistic network. We design a self-supervised image warping correspondence loss for both feature detection and matching, a weakly-supervised epipolar constraints loss on relative camera pose learning, and a directional matching scheme that detects key-point features in a source image and performs coarse-to-fine correspondence search on the target image. We leverage this framework to enforce cycle consistency in our matching module. In addition, we propose a new loss to robustly handle both definite inlier/outlier matches and less-certain matches. The integration of these learning mechanisms enables end-to-end training of a single network performing all three localization components. Bench-marking our approach on public data-sets, exemplifies how such an end-to-end framework is able to yield more accurate localization that out-performs both traditional methods as well as state-of-the-art weakly supervised methods.

We propose a single-shot approach for simultaneously detecting an object in an RGB image and predicting its 6D pose without requiring multiple stages or having to examine multiple hypotheses. Unlike a recently proposed single-shot technique for this task [11] that only predicts an approximate 6D pose that must then be refined, ours is accurate enough not to require additional post-processing. As a result, it is much faster -50 fps on a Titan X (Pascal) GPU -and more suitable for real-time processing. The key component of our method is a new CNN architecture inspired by [28,29] that directly predicts the 2D image locations of the projected vertices of the object's 3D bounding box. The object's 6D pose is then estimated using a PnP algorithm.For single object and multiple object pose estimation on the LINEMOD and OCCLUSION datasets, our approach substantially outperforms other recent 26] when they are all used without postprocessing. During post-processing, a pose refinement step can be used to boost the accuracy of these two methods, but at 10 fps or less, they are much slower than our method.

作为许多自主驾驶和机器人活动的基本组成部分，如自我运动估计，障碍避免和场景理解，单眼深度估计（MDE）引起了计算机视觉和机器人社区的极大关注。在过去的几十年中，已经开发了大量方法。然而，据我们所知，对MDE没有全面调查。本文旨在通过审查1970年至2021年之间发布的197个相关条款来弥补这一差距。特别是，我们为涵盖各种方法的MDE提供了全面的调查，介绍了流行的绩效评估指标并汇总公开的数据集。我们还总结了一些代表方法的可用开源实现，并比较了他们的表演。此外，我们在一些重要的机器人任务中审查了MDE的应用。最后，我们通过展示一些有希望的未来研究方向来结束本文。预计本调查有助于读者浏览该研究领域。

兴趣点检测是计算机视觉和图像处理中最根本，最关键的问题之一。在本文中，我们对图像特征信息（IFI）提取技术进行了全面综述，以进行利益点检测。为了系统地介绍现有的兴趣点检测方法如何从输入图像中提取IFI，我们提出了IFI提取技术的分类学检测。根据该分类法，我们讨论了不同类型的IFI提取技术以进行兴趣点检测。此外，我们确定了与现有的IFI提取技术有关的主要未解决的问题，以及以前尚未讨论过的任何兴趣点检测方法。提供了现有的流行数据集和评估标准，并评估和讨论了18种最先进方法的性能。此外，还详细阐述了有关IFI提取技术的未来研究方向。