Multilayer Ferns: A Learning-based Approach of Patch Recognition and Homography Extraction

Abstract

While local patches recognition is a key component of modern approaches to affine transformation detection and object detection, existing learning-based approaches just identify the patches based on a set of randomly picked and combined binary features, which will lose some strong correlations between features and can not provide stable and remarkable identification ability. In this paper, we proposed a method that select and organize the features in a Multilayer Ferns structure, and show that it is both faster in the run-time processing and more powerful in the identification ability than state-of-the-art ad hoc approaches.