A Functional Representation for Graph Matching

Graph matching is an important and persistent problem in computer vision and pattern recognition for finding node-to-node correspondence between graphs. However, graph matching that incorporates pairwise constraints can be formulated as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP), which is NP-complete and...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 42(2020), 11 vom: 30. Nov., Seite 2737-2754
1. Verfasser: Wang, Fu-Dong (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Xue, Nan, Zhang, Yipeng, Xia, Gui-Song, Pelillo, Marcello
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Graph matching is an important and persistent problem in computer vision and pattern recognition for finding node-to-node correspondence between graphs. However, graph matching that incorporates pairwise constraints can be formulated as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP), which is NP-complete and results in intrinsic computational difficulties. This paper presents a functional representation for graph matching (FRGM) that aims to provide more geometric insights on the problem and reduce the space and time complexities. To achieve these goals, we represent each graph by a linear function space equipped with a functional such as inner product or metric, that has an explicit geometric meaning. Consequently, the correspondence matrix between graphs can be represented as a linear representation map. Furthermore, this map can be reformulated as a new parameterization for matching graphs in Euclidean space such that it is consistent with graphs under rigid or nonrigid deformations. This allows us to estimate the correspondence matrix and geometric deformations simultaneously. We use the representation of edge-attributes rather than the affinity matrix to reduce the space complexity and propose an efficient optimization strategy to reduce the time complexity. The experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that the FRGM can achieve state-of-the-art performance
Beschreibung:Date Revised 02.10.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2919308