@inproceedings{c1c5532da9ba48548c56fa0f73024e7d,
title = "Weakly Supervised Deep Metric Learning for Template Matching",
abstract = "Template matching by normalized cross correlation (NCC) is widely used for finding image correspondences. NCCNet improves the robustness of this algorithm by transforming image features with siamese convolutional nets trained to maximize the contrast between NCC values of true and false matches. The main technical contribution is a weakly supervised learning algorithm for the training. Unlike fully supervised approaches to metric learning, the method can improve upon vanilla NCC without receiving locations of true matches during training. The improvement is quantified through patches of brain images from serial section electron microscopy. Relative to a parameter-tuned bandpass filter, siamese convolutional nets significantly reduce false matches. The improved accuracy of the method could be essential for connectomics, because emerging petascale datasets may require billions of template matches during assembly. Our method is also expected to generalize to other computer vision applications that use template matching to find image correspondences.",
keywords = "Metric learning, Normalized cross correlation, Siamese convolutional neural networks, Weak supervision",
author = "Davit Buniatyan and Sergiy Popovych and Dodam Ih and Thomas Macrina and Jonathan Zung and Seung, {Hyunjune Sebastian}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; Computer Vision Conference, CVC 2019 ; Conference date: 25-04-2019 Through 26-04-2019",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-17795-9_4",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030177942",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "39--58",
editor = "Supriya Kapoor and Kohei Arai",
booktitle = "Advances in Computer Vision - Proceedings of the 2019 Computer Vision Conference CVC",
address = "Germany",
}