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Poster

iMatching: Imperative Correspondence Learning

Chen Wang · Dasong Gao · Yun-Jou Lin · Youjie Xia · Chen Wang

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Tue 1 Oct 1:30 a.m. PDT — 3:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Learning feature correspondence is a foundational task in computer vision, holding immense importance for downstream applications such as visual odometry and 3D reconstruction. Despite recent progress in data-driven models, feature correspondence learning is still limited by the lack of accurate per-pixel correspondence labels. To overcome this difficulty, we introduce a new self-supervised scheme, imperative learning (IL), for training feature correspondence. It enables correspondence learning on arbitrary uninterrupted videos without any camera pose or depth labels, heralding a new era for self-supervised correspondence learning. Specifically, we formulated the problem of correspondence learning as a bilevel optimization, which takes the reprojection error from bundle adjustment as a supervisory signal for the model. To avoid large memory and computation overhead, we leverage the stationary point to effectively back-propagate the implicit gradients through bundle adjustment. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate superior performance on tasks including feature matching and pose estimation, in which we obtained an average of 30% accuracy gain over the state-of-the-art matching models. The source code will be made public to benefit the community.

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