Summary

This repository provides a reference implementation for the paper "Beyond Cartesian Representations for Local Descriptors" (link). If you use it, please cite the paper:

@article{Ebel19,
    andauthor = {Patrick Ebel and Anastasiia Mishchuk and Kwang Moo Yi and Pascal Fua and Eduard Trulls},
   title = {{Beyond Cartesian Representations for Local Descriptors}},
   booktitle = {Proc. of ICCV},
   year = 2019,
},

Please consider also citing the paper upon which the network architecture is based:

@article{Mishchuk17,
   author = {Anastasiya Mishchuk and Dmytro Mishkin and Filip Radenovic and Jiri Matas},
   title = {{Working hard to know your neighbor's margins: Local descriptor learning loss}},
   booktitle = {Proc. of NIPS},
   year = 2017,
}

Poster link

Setting up your environment

Our code relies on pytorch. Please see system/log-polar.yml for a list of dependencies. You can create an environment with miniconda including all the dependencies with conda env create -f system/log-polar.yml.

Inference

We provide two scripts to extract descriptors given an image. Please check the notebook example.ipynb for an demo where you can visualize the log-polar patches. You can also run example.py for a command-line script that extracts features and saves them as a HDF5 file. Run python example.py --help for options. Keypoints are extracted with SIFT via OpenCV.

Training

Download the data

We rely on the data provided by the 2019 Image Matching Workshop challenge. You will need to download the following:

• Images (a): available here. We use the following sequences for training: brandenburg_gate, grand_place_brussels, pantheon_exterior, taj_mahal, buckingham, notre_dame_front_facade, sacre_coeur, temple_nara_japan, colosseum_exterior, palace_of_westminster, st_peters_square. (you only need the images, feel free to delete other files).
• Ground truth match data for training (b): available here.

We generate valid matches with the calibration data and depth maps available in the IMW dataset: please refer to the paper for details. We do not provide the code to preprocess it as we are currently refactoring it.

This data should go into the dl folder, which contains colmap (a) and patchesScale16_network_1.5px (b).

Train

Configuration files are stored under configs. You can check init.yml for an example. This is the default configuration file. You can specify a different one with:

$ python modules/hardnet/hardnet.py --config_file configs/init.yml

Please refer to the code for the different parameters.

Evaluation

AMOS patches dataset. HPatches dataset.

You can evaluate performance on the AMOS and HPatches datasets. First, clone the dependencies with git submodule update --init, and download the weights for GeoDesc, following their instructions. You can then run the following script, that downloads and extracts data in the appropriate format:

$ sh eval_amos.sh
$ sh eval_amos_other_baselines.sh

$ sh eval_hpatches.sh
$ sh eval_hpatches_other_baselines.sh