VocMatch: Efficient Multiview Correspondence for Structure from Motion^*

Michal Havlena and Konrad Schindler

Abstract. Feature matching between pairs of images is a main bottleneck of structure-from-motion computation from large, unordered image sets. We propose an efficient way to establish point correspondences between all pairs of images in a dataset, without having to test each individual pair. The principal message of this paper is that, given a sufficiently large visual vocabulary, feature matching can be cast as image indexing, subject to the additional constraints that index words must be rare in the database and unique in each image. We demonstrate that the proposed matching method, in conjunction with a standard inverted file, is 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than conventional pairwise matching. The proposed vocabulary-based matching has been integrated into a standard SfM pipeline, and delivers results similar to those of the conventional method in much less time.

Keywords: Feature matching, Image clustering, Structure from motion

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LNCS 8691, p. 46 ff.

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