PAIGE: PAirwise Image Geometry Encoding for Improved Efficiency in Structure-from-Motion

Johannes L. Schönberger, Alexander C. Berg, Jan-Michael Frahm

Abstract

Large-scale Structure-from-Motion systems typically spend major computational effort on pairwise image matching and geometric verification in order to discover connected components in large-scale, unordered image collections. In recent years, the research community has spent significant effort on improving the efficiency of this stage. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of various state-of-the-art methods, evaluating and analyzing their performance. Based on the insights of this evaluation, we propose a learning-based approach, the PAirwise Image Geometry Encoding (PAIGE), to efficiently identify image pairs with scene overlap without the need to perform exhaustive putative matching and geometric verification. PAIGE achieves state-of-the-art performance and integrates well into existing Structure-from-Motion pipelines.

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Acknowledgments

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1252921, IIS-1349074, IIS-1452851, CNS-1405847, and by the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Grant No. W911NF-14-1-0438.