Learning Graph Matching

As a fundamental problem in pattern recognition, graph matching has applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to computational biology. In graph matching, patterns are modeled as graphs and pattern recognition amounts to finding a correspondence between the nodes of different graphs....

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence Jg. 31; H. 6; S. 1048 - 1058
Hauptverfasser: Caetano, T.S., McAuley, J.J., Li Cheng, Le, Q.V., Smola, A.J.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Los Alamitos, CA IEEE 01.06.2009
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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ISSN:0162-8828, 1939-3539
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Zusammenfassung:As a fundamental problem in pattern recognition, graph matching has applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to computational biology. In graph matching, patterns are modeled as graphs and pattern recognition amounts to finding a correspondence between the nodes of different graphs. Many formulations of this problem can be cast in general as a quadratic assignment problem, where a linear term in the objective function encodes node compatibility and a quadratic term encodes edge compatibility. The main research focus in this theme is about designing efficient algorithms for approximately solving the quadratic assignment problem, since it is NP-hard. In this paper we turn our attention to a different question: how to estimate compatibility functions such that the solution of the resulting graph matching problem best matches the expected solution that a human would manually provide. We present a method for learning graph matching: the training examples are pairs of graphs and the 'labels' are matches between them. Our experimental results reveal that learning can substantially improve the performance of standard graph matching algorithms. In particular, we find that simple linear assignment with such a learning scheme outperforms Graduated Assignment with bistochastic normalisation, a state-of-the-art quadratic assignment relaxation algorithm.
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ISSN:0162-8828
1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2009.28