Image Matching from Handcrafted to Deep Features: A Survey

Abstract As a fundamental and critical task in various visual applications, image matching can identify then correspond the same or similar structure/content from two or more images. Over the past decades, growing amount and diversity of methods have been proposed for image matching, particularly with the development of deep learning techniques over the recent years. However, it may leave several open questions about which method would be a suitable choice for specific applications with respect to different scenarios and task requirements and how to design better image matching methods with superior performance in accuracy, robustness and efficiency. This encourages us to conduct a comprehensive and systematic…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 61773295, 61972250, 2018AAA0100704
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province

  Award: 2019CFA037
• KT
  Key Technologies Research and Development Program

  Award: 2018AAA0100704
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2018AAA0100704