Feature matching and heat flow in centro-affine geometry

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.093zbMATH Open1460.53010arXiv2003.13842MaRDI QIDQ2220001FDOQ2220001

Peter J. Olver, Yun Yang, Changzheng Qu

Publication date: 21 January 2021

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the differential invariants and the invariant heat flow in centro-affine geometry, proving that the latter is equivalent to the inviscid Burgers' equation. Furthermore, we apply the centro-affine invariants to develop an invariant algorithm to match features of objects appearing in images. We show that the resulting algorithm compares favorably with the widely applied scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), speeded up robust features (SURF), and affine-SIFT (ASIFT) methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13842

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zbMATH Keywords

heat flowdifferential invariantequivariant moving framesinviscid Burgers' equationcentro-affine geometryedge matching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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Uses Software

• AS 136
• FastDTW
• SURF

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