Point Set Matching/Registration Material

A list of point set matching / point set registration resources.

Table of Contents

• Point Set Matching/Registration Material
  • Table of Contents
  • Point Set Matching/Registration Methods
    • Point Matching/Registration Methods
    • Mismatch Removal/Correspondence Pruning Methods
    • Graph Matching Methods
    • Misc
    • Deep Features
  • Applications
    • Remote Sensing Image Registration
    • Retinal Image Registration
    • Palmprint Image Registration
    • Visual Homing Navigation
    • HDR Imaging
    • Misc
  • Databases
    • General databases
    • Other databases
  • Tools

Point Set Matching/Registration Methods

Point Matching/Registration Methods

• [MCT] A mathematical analysis of the motion coherence theory, IJCV'1989 [pdf]
• [ICP: point-to-point] Method for Registration of 3-D Shapes, Robotics-DL tentative'1992 [pdf] [code][code] [code] [material] [tutorial]
• [ICP: point-to-plane] Object modeling by registration of multiple range images, IVC'1992 [pdf]
• [ICP] Iterative point matching for registration of free-form curves and surfaces, IJCV'1994 [pdf]
• [RPM/Softassign] New algorithms for 2d and 3d point matching: pose estimation and correspondence, PR'1998 [pdf] [code] [code]
• [MultiviewReg] Multiview registration for large data sets, 3DDIM'1999 [pdf]
• [SC] Shape matching and object recognition using shape contexts, TPAMI'2002 [pdf][wiki] [project] [code]
• [EM-ICP] Multi-scale EM-ICP: A Fast and Robust Approach for Surface Registration, ECCV'2002 [pdf] [code]
• [LM-ICP] Robust registration of 2D and 3D point sets, IVC'2003 [pdf] [code]
• [TPS-RPM] A new point matching algorithm for non-rigid registration, CVPR'2000 [pdf] CVIU'2003 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [Survey] Image registration methods: a survey, IVC'2003 [pdf]
• [KCReg] A correlation-based approach to robust point set registration, ECCV'2004 [pdf] [chp] [code]
• [3DSC] Recognizing objects in range data using regional point descriptors, ECCV'2004 [pdf] [code_pcl]
• [RGR] Robust Global Registration, ESGP'2005 [pdf]
• [RPM-LNS] Robust point matching for nonrigid shapes by preserving local neighborhood structures, TPAMI'2006 [pdf] [code]
• [IT-FFD] Shape registration in implicit spaces using information theory and free form deformations, TPAMI'2006 [pdf]
• [Rigid] Rigid Body Registration, 2007 [ch02]
• [CDC] Simultaneous covariance driven correspondence (cdc) and transformation estimation in the expectation maximization framework, CVPR'2007 [pdf] [project]
• [Nonrigid-ICP] Optimal step nonrigid icp algorithms for surface registration, CVPR'2007 [pdf] [code] [code]
• [GNA] Global non-rigid alignment of 3D scans, TOG'2007 [pdf]
• [PF] Particle filtering for registration of 2D and 3D point sets with stochastic dynamics, CVPR'2008 [pdf]
• [JS] Simultaneous nonrigid registration of multiple point sets and atlas construction, TPAMI'2008 [pdf]
• [4PCS] 4-points congruent sets for robust pairwise surface registration, TOG'2008 [pdf] [project]
• [GICP] Generalized ICP, RSS'2009 [pdf] [code]
• [MP] 2D-3D registration of deformable shapes with manifold projection, ICIP'2009 [pdf]
• [SMM] The mixtures of Student’s t-distributions as a robust framework for rigid registration, IVC'2009 [pdf]
• [Algebraic-PSR] An Algebraic Approach to Affine Registration of Point Sets, ICCV'2009 [pdf]
• [SM] Subspace matching: Unique solution to point matching with geometric constraints, ICCV'2009 [pdf]
• [FPFH] Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) for 3D Registration, ICRA'2009 [pdf] [code]
• [GO] Global optimization for alignment of generalized shapes, CVPR'2009 [pdf]
• [ISO] Isometric registration of ambiguous and partial data, CVPR'2009 [pdf]
• [GF] A new method for the registration of three-dimensional point-sets: The Gaussian fields framework, IVC'2010 [pdf]
• [RotInv] Rotation invariant non-rigid shape matching in cluttered scenes, ECCV'2010 [pdf] [code]
• [CDFHC] Group-wise point-set registration using a novel cdf-based havrda-charvát divergence, IJCV'2010 [pdf] [code]
• [QPCCP] A quadratic programming based cluster correspondence projection algorithm for fast point matching, CVIU'2010 [pdf] [code]
• [CPD] Point set registration: Coherent point drift, NIPS'2007 [pdf] TPAMI'2010 [pdf] [code]
• [PFSD] Point set registration via particle filtering and stochastic dynamics, TPAMI'2010 [pdf]
• [ECMPR] Rigid and articulated point registration with expectation conditional maximization, TPAMI'2011 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [GMMReg/TPS-L2] Robust point set registration using gaussian mixture models, ICCV'2005 TPAMI'2011 [pdf] [code]
• [TPRL] Topology preserving relaxation labeling for nonrigid point matching, TPAMI'2011 [pdf]
• [OOH] Robust point set registration using EM-ICP with information-theoretically optimal outlier handling, CVPR'2011 [pdf]
• [SGO] Stochastic global optimization for robust point set registration, CVIU'2011
• [survey] 3D Shape Registration, 3DIAA'2012
• [3DNDT-D2D/P2D] Fast and accurate scan registration through minimization of the distance between compact 3D NDT representations, IJRR'2012 [pdf] [project]
• [Multiview LM-ICP] Accurate and automatic alignment of range surfaces, 3DIMPVT'2012 [pdf] [code]
• [ISC] Intrinsic shape context descriptors for deformable shapes, CVPR'2012 [pdf]
• [RPM-Concave] Robust point matching revisited: A concave optimization approach, ECCV'2012 [pdf] [code]
• [RINPSM] Rotation Invariant Nonrigid Point Set Matching in Cluttered Scenes, TIP'2012 [pdf] [code]
• [RPM-L2E] Robust estimation of nonrigid transformation for point set registration, CVPR'2013 [pdf] [code]
• [GO-ICP] Go-ICP: Solving 3D Registration Efficiently and Globally Optimally, ICCV'2013 [pdf] TPAMI'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [Survey] Registration of 3D point clouds and meshes: a survey from rigid to nonrigid, TVCG'2013 [pdf]
• [NMM] Diffeomorphic Point Set Registration Using Non-Stationary Mixture Models, ISBI'2013 [pdf]
• [Sparse-ICP] Sparse Iterative Closest Point, ESGP'2013 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [IRLS] Robust registration of point sets using iteratively reweighted least squares, COA'2014 [pdf] [code]
• [JRMPC] A Generative Model for the Joint Registration of Multiple Point Sets, ECCV'2014 [pdf] [project] [code&data]
• [RPM-VFC] Robust Point Matching via Vector Field Consensus, TIP'2014 [pdf] [code]
• [GLTP] Non-rigid Point Set Registration with Global-Local Topology Preservation, CVPRW'2014 [pdf]
• [color-GICP] Color supported generalized-ICP, VISAPP'2014 [pdf]
• [RPM-Concave] Point Matching in the Presence of Outliers in Both Point Sets: A Concave Optimization Approach, CVPR'2014 [pdf] [code]
• [super4PCS] Super 4pcs fast global pointcloud registration via smart indexing, CGF'2014 [pdf] [code] [OpenGR]
• [SDTM] A Riemannian framework for matching point clouds represented by the Schrodinger distance transform, CVPR'2014 [pdf]
• [GLMD-TPS] A robust global and local mixture distance based non-rigid point set registration, PR'2015 [pdf] [code]
• [CSM] Non-rigid point set registration via coherent spatial mapping, SP'2015 [pdf]
• [ADR/SVR] An Adaptive Data Representation for Robust Point-Set Registration and Merging, ICCV'2015 [pdf] [code] [code]
• [MLMD] MLMD: Maximum likelihood mixture decoupling for fast and accurate point cloud registration, 3DV'2015 [pdf] [project]
• [APSR] Non-rigid Articulated Point Set Registration for Human Pose Estimation, WACV'2015 [pdf]
• [RegGF] Non-rigid visible and infrared face registration via regularized Gaussian fields criterion, PR'2015 [pdf] [code]
• [LLT] Robust feature matching for remote sensing image registration via locally linear transforming, TGRS'2015 [pdf] [code]
• [RPM-L2E] Robust L2E estimation of transformation for non-rigid registration, TSP'2015 [pdf] [code]
• [GLR] Robust Nonrigid Point Set Registration Using Graph-Laplacian Regularization, WACV'2015 [pdf]
• [FPPSR] Aligning the dissimilar: A probabilistic method for feature-based point set registration, ICPR'2016 [pdf]
• [IPDA] Point Clouds Registration with Probabilistic Data Association, IROS'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [CPPSR] A probabilistic framework for color-based point set registration, CVPR'2016 [pdf] [project]
• [GOGMA] GOGMA: Globally-optimal gaussian mixture alignment, CVPR'2016 [pdf] [project]
• [GO-APM] An Efficient Globally Optimal Algorithm for Asymmetric Point Matching, TPAMI'2016 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [PR-GLS] Non-Rigid Point Set Registration by Preserving Global and Local Structures, TIP'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [conreg] Non-iterative rigid 2D/3D point-set registration using semidefinite programming, TIP'2016 [pdf]
• [PM] Probabilistic Model for Robust Affine and Non-rigid Point Set Matching, TPAMI'2016 [pdf]
• [SPSR] A Stochastic Approach to Diffeomorphic Point Set Registration With Landmark Constraints, TPAMI'2016 [pdf]
• [FRSSP] Fast Rotation Search with Stereographic Projections for 3D Registration, TPAMI'2016 [pdf]
• [VBPSM] Probabilistic Model for Robust Affine and Non-rigid Point Set Matching, TPAMI'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [MFF] Image Correspondences Matching Using Multiple Features Fusion, ECCV'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [FGR] Fast Global Registration, ECCV'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [HMRF ICP] Hidden Markov Random Field Iterative Closest Point, arxiv'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [SSFR] Global Registration of 3D LiDAR Point Clouds Basedon Scene Features: Application toStructured Environments, RS'2017 [pdf]
• [color-PCR] Colored point cloud registration revisited, ICCV'2017 [pdf]
• [CGF] Learning Compact Geometric Features, ICCV'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [dpOptTrans] Efficient Globally Optimal Point Cloud Alignment using Bayesian Nonparametric Mixtures, CVPR'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [DO] Discriminative Optimization: Theory and Applications to Point Cloud Registration, CVPR'2017 [pdf] [arxiv] [code]
• [GORE] Guaranteed Outlier Removal for Point Cloud Registration with Correspondences, TPAMI'2017 [pdf]
• [CSGM] A systematic approach for cross-source point cloud registration by preserving macro and micro structures, TIP'2017 [pdf]
• [FDCP] Fast descriptors and correspondence propagation for robust global point cloud registration, TIP'2017 [pdf]
• [RSWD] Multiscale Nonrigid Point Cloud Registration Using Rotation-Invariant Sliced-Wasserstein Distance via Laplace-Beltrami Eigenmap, SIAM JIS'2017 [pdf]
• [MR] Non-Rigid Point Set Registration with Robust Transformation Estimation under Manifold Regularization, AAAI'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [LPM] Locality Preserving Matching, IJCAI'2017 [pdf] IJCV'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [DARE] Density adaptive point set registration, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [GC-RANSAC] Graph-Cut RANSAC, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [Ppfnet] Ppfnet: Global context aware local features for robust 3d point matching, CVPR'2018 [pdf]
• [3D-CODED] 3D-CODED: 3D correspondences by deep deformation, ECCV'2018 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [GPCReg-TS] Efficient global point cloud registration by matching rotation invariant features through translation search, ECCV'2018 [pdf]
• [N3Net] Neural Nearest Neighbors Networks, NeurIPS'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [3DFeat-NET] 3dfeat-net: Weakly supervised local 3d features for point cloud registration, ECCV'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [MVDesc-RMBP] Learning and Matching Multi-View Descriptors for Registration of Point Clouds, ECCV'2018 [pdf]
• [HGMR] HGMR: Hierarchical Gaussian Mixtures forAdaptive 3D Registration, ECCV'2018 [pdf]
• [GMM-Tree] Fast and Accurate Point Cloud Registration using Trees of Gaussian Mixtures, arxiv'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [SWS] Nonrigid Points Alignment with Soft-weighted Selection, IJCAI'2018 [pdf]
• [DLD] Dependent landmark drift: robust point set registration with a Gaussian mixture model and a statistical shape model, arxiv'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [DeepMapping] DeepMapping: Unsupervised Map Estimation From Multiple Point Clouds, arxiv'2018 [pdf] [project]
• [APSR] Adversarial point set registration, arxiv'2018 [pdf]
• [3DIV] Fast and Globally Optimal Rigid Registration of 3D Point Sets by Transformation Decomposition, arxiv'2018 [pdf]
• [Analysis] Analysis of Robust Functions for Registration Algorithms, arxiv'2018 [pdf]
• [MVCNN] Learning Local Shape Descriptors from Part Correspondences with Multiview Convolutional Networks, TOG'2018 [pdf] [project]
• [CSCIF] Cubature Split Covariance Intersection Filter-Based Point Set Registration, TIP'2018 [pdf]
• [FPR] Efficient Registration of High-Resolution Feature Enhanced Point Clouds, TPAMI'2018 [pdf]
• [DFMM-GLSP] Non-rigid point set registration using dual-feature finite mixture model and global-local structural preservation, PR'2018 [pdf]
• [PR-Net] Non-Rigid Point Set Registration Networks, arxiv'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [3DRegNet] 3DRegNet: A Deep Neural Network for 3D Point Registration, arxiv'2019 [pdf]
• [RPM-MR] Nonrigid Point Set Registration with Robust Transformation Learning under Manifold Regularization, TNNLS'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [FGMM] Feature-guided Gaussian mixture model for image matching, PR'2019 [pdf]
• [LSR-CFP] Least-squares registration of point sets over SE (d) using closed-form projections, CVIU'2019 [pdf]
• [TEASER] Teaser: Fast and certifiable point cloud registration, T-Robotics'2020 [pdf] [code]
• [FPR] Efficient Registration of High-Resolution Feature Enhanced Point Clouds, TPAMI'2019 [pdf]
• [DCP] Deep Closest Point: Learning Representations for Point Cloud Registration, arxiv'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [DeepICP] DeepICP: An End-to-End Deep Neural Network for 3D Point Cloud Registration, arxiv'2019 [pdf]
• [RelativeNet] 3D Local Features for Direct Pairwise Registration, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [aff+vSVF] Networks for Joint Affine and Non-Parametric Image Registration, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [localReg+vSVF] Metric Learning for Image Registration, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [PointNetLK] PointNetLK: Robust & Efficient Point Cloud Registration using PointNet, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [SDRSAC] SDRSAC: Semidefinite-Based Randomized Approach for Robust Point Cloud Registration without Correspondences, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [FilterReg] FilterReg: Robust and Efficient Probabilistic Point-Set Registration using Gaussian Filter and Twist Parameterization, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [project] [code] [code]
• [POINT2] Multiview 2D/3D Rigid Registration via a Point-Of-Interest Network for Tracking and Triangulation, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [Geo-CNN] Modeling Local Geometric Structure of 3D Point Clouds using Geo-CNN, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [GFrames] GFrames: Gradient-Based Local Reference Framefor 3D Shape Matching, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [3DSmoothNet] The Perfect Match: 3D Point Cloud Matching with Smoothed Densities, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [LPS] A Robust Local Spectral Descriptor for Matching Non-Rigid Shapes with Incompatible Shape Structures, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [RF-Net] RF-Net: An End-to-End Image Matching Network based on Receptive Field, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [QATM] QATM: Quality-Aware Template Matching For Deep Learning, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [VBPSR] Robust Variational Bayesian Point Set Registration, ICCV'2019 [pdf]
• [BCPD] A Bayesian Formulation of Coherent Point Drift, TPAMI'2020 [pdf] [code]
• [BCPD++] Acceleration of non-rigid point set registration with downsampling and Gaussian process regression, TPAMI'2021 [pdf]
• [StickyPillars] StickyPillars: Robust feature matching on point clouds using Graph Neural Networks, arXiv'2020 [pdf]
• [Pointpwc-net] Pointpwc-net: Cost volume on point clouds for (self-) supervised scene flow estimation, ECCV'2020 [code]
• [DGR] Deep Global Registration, CVPR'2020 [code]
• [LearningMultiview] Learning multiview 3D point cloud registration, CVPR'2020 [code]
• [CG-SAC] Compatibility-Guided Sampling Consensus for 3-D Point Cloud Registration, TGRS'2020
• [RPM-Net] RPM-Net: Robust Point Matching using Learned Features, CVPR'2020 [code]
• [SpinNet] SpinNet: Learning a General Surface Descriptor for 3D Point Cloud Registration, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [PointDSC] PointDSC: Robust Point Cloud Registration using Deep Spatial Consistency, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [ReAgent] ReAgent: Point Cloud Registration using Imitation and Reinforcement Learning, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [RGM] Robust Point Cloud Registration Framework Based on Deep Graph Matching, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [PREDATOR] PREDATOR: Registration of 3D Point Clouds with Low Overlap, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [COTR] COTR: Correspondence Transformer for Matching Across Images, ICCV'2021 [code]
• [DFM] DFM: A Performance Baseline for Deep Feature Matching, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [FastRobustICP] Fast and Robust Iterative Closest Point, TPAMI'2021 [code]
• [GeoTransformer] Geometric Transformer for Fast and Robust Point Cloud Registration, CVPR'2022 [code]
• [Lepard] Lepard: Learning partial point cloud matching in rigid and deformable scenes, CVPR'2022 [code]
• [CFI2P] CFI2P: Coarse-to-Fine Cross-Modal Correspondence Learning for Image-to-Point Cloud Registration, arxiv'2023 [pdf]
• [GraphSCNet] Deep Graph-based Spatial Consistency for Robust Non-rigid Point Cloud Registration, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [QGORE] QGORE: Quadratic-time guaranteed outlier removal for point cloud registration, TPAMI'2023 [pdf]
• [NDP] Non-rigid Point Cloud Registration with Neural Deformation Pyramid, NIPS'2022 [pdf] [code]
• [GBCPD] Geodesic-based bayesian coherent point drift, TPAMI'2022 [pdf]
• [GBCPD] Generalized Point Set Registration with Fuzzy Correspondences Based on Variational Bayesian Inference, TFS'2022 [pdf]
• [AMM-NRR] Fast and Robust Non-Rigid Registration Using Accelerated Majorization-Minimization, TPAMI'2023 [pdf] [code]
• [CryoAlign] Accurate global and local 3D alignment of cryo-EM density maps using local spatial structural features, Nature Communications'2024 [pdf] [code]

Feature Matching/Mismatch Removing/Correspondence Learning/Pruning

• [RANSAC] Random sample consensus: a paradigm for model fitting with applications to image analysis and automated cartography, 1981 [pdf] [wiki]
• [MLESAC] MLESAC: A new robust estimator with application to estimating image geometry, CVIU'2000 [pdf] [code_pcl]
• [PROSAC] Matching with PROSAC-progressive sample consensus, CVPR'2005 [pdf] [code_pcl]
• [ICF/SVR] Rejecting mismatches by correspondence function, IJCV'2010 [pdf]
• [GS] Common visual pattern discovery via spatially coherent correspondences, CVPR'2010 [pdf] [code]
• [KC-CE] A novel kernel correlation model with the correspondence estimation, JMIV'2011 [pdf] [code]
• [VFC] A robust method for vector field learning with application to mismatch removing, CVPR'2011 [pdf] [code]
• [DefRANSAC] In defence of RANSAC for outlier rejection in deformable registration, ECCV'2012 [pdf] [code]
• [CM] Robust Non-parametric Data Fitting for Correspondence Modeling, ICCV'2013 [pdf] [code]
• [AGMM] Asymmetrical Gauss Mixture Models for Point Sets Matching, CVPR'2014 [pdf]
• [TC] Epipolar geometry estimation for wide baseline stereo by Clustering Pairing Consensus, PRL'2014 [pdf]
• [BF] Bilateral Functions for Global Motion Modeling, ECCV'2014 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [WxBS] WxBS: Wide Baseline Stereo Generalizations, BMVC'2015 [pdf] [project]
• [RepMatch] RepMatch: Robust Feature Matching and Posefor Reconstructing Modern Cities, ECCV'2016 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [SIM] The shape interaction matrix-based affine invariant mismatch removal for partial-duplicate image search, TIP'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [DSAC] DSAC: differentiable RANSAC for camera localization, CVPR'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [GMS] GMS: Grid-based Motion Statistics for Fast, Ultra-robust Feature Correspondence, CVPR'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [LMI] Consensus Maximization with Linear Matrix Inequality Constraints, CVPR'2017 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [GOPAC] Globally-Optimal Inlier Set Maximisation for Simultaneous Camera Pose and Feature Correspondence, ICCV'2017 [pdf] TPAMI'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [LFGC] Learning to Find Good Correspondences, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [GC-RANSAC] Graph-Cut RANSAC, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [KCNet] Mining Point Cloud Local Structures by Kernel Correlation and Graph Pooling, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [SRC] Consensus Maximization for Semantic Region Correspondences, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [CODE] Code: Coherence based decision boundaries for feature correspondence, TPAMI'2018 [pdf] [project]
• [DFE] Deep fundamental matrix estimation, ECCV'2018 [code]
• [N3Net] Neural Nearest Neighbors Networks, NeurIPS'2018 [code]
• [OANet] Learning Two-View Correspondences and Geometry Using Order-Aware Network ICCV'2019 [code]
• [LPM] Locality preserving matching, IJCV'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [LMR] LMR: Learning A Two-class Classifier for Mismatch Removal, TIP'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [PFFM] Progressive Filtering for Feature Matching, ICASSP'2019 [pdf]
• [NM-Net] NM-Net: Mining Reliable Neighbors for Robust Feature Correspondences, arXiv'2019 [pdf]
• [NG-RANSAC] Neural-Guided RANSAC: Learning Where to Sample Model Hypotheses, ICCV'2019 [pdf] [code] [project]
• [MAGSAC] MAGSAC: Marginalizing Sample Consensus, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [DLCM] Unsupervised Learning of Consensus Maximization for 3D Vision Problems, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [ACNe] ACNe: Attentive context normalization for robust permutation-equivariant learning, CVPR'2020[code]
• [SuperGlue] SuperGlue: Learning Feature Matching with Graph Neural Networks, CVPR'2020 [code]
• [EifficientDeterministicSearch] Efficient Deterministic Search with Robust Loss Functions for Geometric Model Fitting, TPAMI'2021 [code]
• [LoFTR] Detector-free local feature matching with transformers, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [GLOF] Robust Feature Matching Using Guided Local Outlier Factor, PR'2021 [pdf] [code]
• [CAT] Correspondence Attention Transformer: A Context-sensitive Network for Two-view Correspondence Learning, TMM'2022 [code]
• [TransMVSNet] TransMVSNet: Global Context-aware Multi-view Stereo Network with Transformers, CVPR'2022 [code]
• [ResMatch] ResMatch: Residual Attention Learning for Local Feature Matching, AAAI'2024[pdf][code]
• [ConvMatch] ConvMatch: Rethinking Network Design for Two-View Correspondence Learning, AAAI'2023 [code]
• [LightGlue] LightGlue: Local Feature Matching at Light Speed, arxiv'2023 [pdf] [code]
• [GlueStick] GlueStick: Robust Image Matching by Sticking Points and Lines Together, ICCV'2023 [pdf] [code]
• [DKM] DKM: Dense Kernelized Feature Matching for Geometry Estimation, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [ASTR] ASTR: Adaptive Spot-Guided Transformer for Consistent Local Feature Matching, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [IMP] IMP: Iterative Matching and Pose Estimation with Adaptive Pooling, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [PATS] PATS: Patch Area Transportation with Subdivision for Local Feature Matching, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [NCMNet] Progressive Neighbor Consistency Mining for Correspondence Pruning, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [AdaMatcher] Adaptive Assignment for Geometry Aware Local Feature Matching, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [SEM] Structured Epipolar Matcher for Local Feature Matching, CVPR'2023 [code]
• [FSNet] Two-View Geometry Scoring Without Correspondences, CVPR'2023 [code]

Graph Matching Methods

• [SM] A spectral technique for correspondence problems using pairwise constraints, ICCV'2005 [pdf] [code]
• [SM-MAP] Efficient MAP approximation for dense energy functions, ICML'2006 [pdf] [code]
• [SMAC] Balanced Graph Matching, NIPS'2006 [pdf] [code]
• [FCGM] Feature correspondence via graph matching: Models and global optimization, ECCV'2008 [pdf]
• [PM] Probabilistic Graph and Hypergraph Matching, CVPR'2008 [pdf]
• [IPFP] An Integer Projected Fixed Point Method for Graph Matching and MAP Inference, NIPS'2009 [pdf] [code]
• [RRWM] Reweighted Random Walks for Graph Matching, ECCV'2010 [pdf]
• [FGM] Factorized graph matching, CVPR'2012 [pdf] [code]
• [DGM] Deformable Graph Matching, CVPR'2013 [pdf] [code]
• [MS] Progressive mode-seeking on graphs for sparse feature matching, ECCV'2014 [pdf] [code]
• [MGM] A convex relaxation for multi-graph matching, CVPR'2019 [pdf]

Misc

• [ASIFT] ASIFT: An Algorithm for Fully Affine Invariant Comparison, IPOL'2011 [pdf] [project] [online demo]
• [RootSIFT] Three things everyone should know to improve object retrieval, CVPR'2012 [pdf] [related code]
• [DM-CNN] Descriptor Matching with Convolutional Neural Networks: a Comparison to SIFT, arXiv'2014 [pdf]
• [DASC] DASC: Robust Dense Descriptor for Multi-modal and Multi-spectral Correspondence Estimation, TPAMI'2017 [pdf] [project]
• [MODS] MODS: Fast and Robust Method for Two-View Matching, CVIU'2015 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [Elastic2D3D] Efficient Globally Optimal 2D-to-3D Deformable Shape Matching, CVPR'2016 [pdf] [project]
• [TCDCN] Facial Landmark Detection by Deep Multi-task Learning, ECCV'2014 [pdf] [project]
• [LAI] Object matching using a locally affine invariant and linear programming techniques, TPAMI'2013 [pdf]
• [HPatches] HPatches: A benchmark and evaluation of handcrafted and learned local descriptors, CVPR'2017 [pdf]
• [GeoDesc] GeoDesc: Learning Local Descriptors by Integrating Geometry Constraints, ECCV'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [MIRROR] Matchable Image Retrieval by Learning from Surface Reconstruction ACCV'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [NDDR-CNN] NDDR-CNN: Layerwise Feature Fusing in Multi-Task CNNsby Neural Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [ContextDesc] ContextDesc: Local Descriptor Augmentation with Cross-Modality Context, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [Evaluation] An Evaluation of Feature Matchers forFundamental Matrix Estimation, BMVC'2019 [pdf]

Deep Features

• [TFeat] Learning local feature descriptors with triplets and shallow convolutional neural networks, BMVC'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [L2-Net] L2-Net: Deep Learning of Discriminative Patch Descriptor in Euclidean Space, CVPR'2017 [pdf] [code]
• [HardNet] Working hard to know your neighbor's margins: Local descriptor learning loss, CVPR'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [AffNet] Repeatability Is Not Enough: Learning Discriminative Affine Regions via Discriminability, ECCV'2018 [pdf] [code]
• [GCNv2] GCNv2: Efficient Correspondence Prediction for Real-Time SLAM, ICLR'2019 [pdf] [code]
• [D2-Net] D2-Net: A Trainable CNN for Joint Detection and Description of Local Features, CVPR'2019 [pdf] [project] [code]
• [SDC] Stacked Dilated Convolution: A Unified Descriptor Network for Dense Matching Tasks, CVPR'2019 [pdf]
• [GIFT] GIFT: Learning transformation-invariant dense visual descriptors via group cnns, NeurIPS'2019 [code]
• [DISK] DISK: Learning local features with policy gradient, NeurIPS'2020 [code]
• [ASLFeat] ASLFeat: Learning Local Features of Accurate Shape and Localization, CVPR'2020 [code]
• [DualRC-Net] Dual-Resolution Correspondence Networks, NeurIPS'2020 [code]
• [GLU-Net] GLU-Net: Global-local universal network for dense flow and correspondences, CVPR'2020 [code]
• [GOCor] GOCor: Bringing globally optimized correspondence volumes into your neural network, NeurIPS'2020 [code]
• [XResolution] X Resolution Correspondence Networks, arXiv'2020 [code]
• [Sparse-ncnet] Efficient neighbourhood consensus networks via submanifold sparse convolutions, ECCV'2020 [code]
• [CaPS] Learning feature descriptors using camera pose supervision, ECCV'2020 [code]
• [COTR] COTR: Correspondence Transformer for Matching Across Images, ICCV'2021 [code]
• [CHM] Convolutional Hough Matching Networks, CVPR'2021 [code]
• [Key.Net] Key.Net: Keypoint Detection by Handcrafted and Learned CNN Filters Revisited, TPAMI'2022 [code]
• [DeDoDe] DeDoDe: Detect, Don't Describe -- Describe, Don't Detect for Local Feature Matching, arxiv'2023 [pdf] [code]
• [DarkFeat] DarkFeat: Noise-Robust Feature Detector and Descriptor for Extremely Low-Light RAW Images, AAAI'2023 [code]
• [RELF] Learning Rotation-Equivariant Features for Visual Correspondence, CVPR'2023 [code]

Applications

Remote Sensing Image Registration

• [GLPM] Guided Locality Preserving Feature Matching for Remote Sensing Image Registration, TGRS'2018 [pdf]

Retinal Image Registration

• [DB-ICP] The dual-bootstrap iterative closest point algorithm with application to retinal image registration, TMI'2003 [pdf]
• [GDB-ICP] Registration of Challenging Image Pairs: Initialization, Estimation, and Decision, TPAMI'2007 [pdf] [project]
• [ED-DB-ICP] The edge-driven dual-bootstrap iterative closest point algorithm for registration of multimodal fluorescein angiogram sequence, TMI'2010 [pdf]

Palmprint Image Registration

• Robust and efficient ridge-based palmprint matching, TPAMI'2012 [pdf]
• Palmprint image registration using convolutional neural networks and Hough transform, arxiv'2019 [pdf]

Visual Homing Navigation

• Visual Homing via Guided Locality Preserving Matching, ICRA'2018 [pdf]

HDR Imaging

• Locally non-rigid registration for mobile HDR photography, CVPRW'2015 [pdf]

Misc

• Hand Motion from 3D Point Trajectories and a Smooth Surface Model, ECCV'2004 [pdf] [project]
• A robust hybrid method for nonrigid image registration, PR'2011 [pdf]
• Aligning Images in the Wild, CVPR'2012 [pdf] [code]
• Robust feature set matching for partial face recognition, CVPR'2013 [pdf]
• Multi-modal and Multi-spectral Registrationfor Natural Images, ECCV'2014 [pdf] [project]
• Articulated and Generalized Gaussian KernelCorrelation for Human Pose Estimation, TIP'2016 [pdf]
• Infrared and visible image fusion via gradient transfer and total variation minimization, Information Fusion'2016 [pdf] [code]
• [Workshop] Image Matching: Local Features & Beyond, CVPR'2021
• [Challenge] Image Matching Challenge 2021

Databases

General databases

• MegaDepth
• ScanNet
• 2D Synthesized Chui-Rangarajan Dataset (deformation, noise, and outliers)
• TOSCA
• Multi-View Stereo Dataset
• Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections
• Multi-View Stereo
• VGG Affine Datasets
• Multi-view VGG's Dataset
• Oxford Building Reconstruction
• IMM Datasets
• MPEG7 CE Shape-1 Part B
• Leaf Shapes Database
• CMU House/Hotel Sequence Images
• Generated Matching Dataset
• Image Sequences
• Mythological creatures 2D
• Tools 2D
• Human face
• Cars & Motorbikes
• DIML Multimodal Benchmark
• Street View Dataset [github] [data]
• EVD: Extreme View Dataset [EVD_tentatives] [EZD]
• WxBS: Wide Baseline Dataset [W1BS]
• Stanford 3D Scanning
• MPI FAUST Dataset
• Mikolajczyk Database
• Panoramic Image Database
• PS-Dataset (A Large Dataset for improving Patch Matching, PhotoSynth Dataset for improving local patch Descriptors)
• Two-view Geometry
• Point clouds data sets for 3D registration
• IMW CVPR 2019: Challenge
• Robotic 3D Scan Repository
• Database for 3D surface registration
• Large Geometric Models Archive
• Laser scanner point clouds

Other databases

• FIRE: Fundus Image Registration Dataset
• DRIVE (Retinal Images)
• DRIONS-DB (Retinal Images)
• STARE (Retinal Images)
• Plant Images
• MR Prostate Images
• CV Images
• ETHZ Datasets
• CVPapers
• YACVID
• Intelligent remote sensing data analyis

Tools

• VLFeat
• PCL: Point Cloud Library
• Pointmatcher: a modular library implementing the ICP algorithm for aligning point clouds
• Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing
• 3D keypoints (MeshDOG) and local descriptors (MeshHOG)
• COLMAP
• OpenMVG: open Multiple View Geometry
• VisualSFM : A Visual Structure from Motion System
• Medical Image Registration Toolbox
• Graph Matching Toolbox in MATLAB
• FAIR: Flexible Algorithms for Image Registration [pdf]
• Range Image Registration Toolbox
• Image Matching WebUI find matches between 2 images
• hloc - the hierarchical localization toolbox