Henrik Stewénius

Henrik Stewénius

My current research interests are in scalable computer vision in general an in particular in image matching, with applications in Search By Image and Goggle Goggles. The UKY experimental data along with a more complete set of pdfs can be found at: www.vis.uky.edu/~stewe/. Some old material can be found at my old homepage in Lund.

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    Size Matters: Exhaustive Geometric Verification for Image Retrieval
    Steinar H. Gunderson
    Julien Pilet
    12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer(2012), pp. 674-687
    Preview abstract The overreaching goals in large-scale image retrieval are bigger, better and cheaper. For systems based on local features we show how to get both efficient geometric verification of every match and unprecedented speed for the low sparsity situation. Large-scale systems based on quantized local features usually process the index one term at a time, forcing two separate scoring steps: First, a scoring step to find candidates with enough matches, and then a geometric verification step where a subset of the candidates are checked. Our method searches through the index a document at a time, verifying the geometry of every candidate in a single pass. We study the behavior of several algorithms with respect to index density---a key element for large-scale databases. In order to further improve the efficiency we also introduce a new new data structure, called the counting min-tree, which outperforms other approaches when working with low database density, a necessary condition for very large-scale systems. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with a proof of concept system that can match an image against a database of more than 90~billion images in just a few seconds. View details
    Stereo Matching with Color-weighted Correlation, Hierarchical Belief Propagation and Occlusion Handling
    Qingxiong Yang
    Liang Wang
    Ruigang Yang
    David Nistér
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)(2008)
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    Linear Time Maximally Stable Extremal Regions
    David Nistér
    Proc. 10th Europ. Conf. Comput. Vision(2008), pp. 183-196
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