I am learning OpenCV and have started exploring the SURF Algorithm for image matching. I have created a sample image library by modifying the default images available with Microsoft Windows 7.
Each image has a rotated, scaled, blurred and skewed version in the same folder.
My code for finding out matching images is as shown below. As can be seen in the code, the distance is measured by the line dis/objectDescriptors->total and further similarity is calculated by 100 - (dis/objectDescriptors->total) *100.
Unfortunately, this is giving me some weird false positives. For example, it matches the image1 with completely different image2 (85% similarity) but will show only 60% similarity with the slight blurred version of image1.
How do I get rid of false positives?
The below code was inspired from the website: http://opencvuser.blogspot.in/2012/07/surf-source-code-part-2.html
#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
static double dis=0;//For calculating the distance
IplImage *image = 0;
double
compareSURFDescriptors( const float* d1, const float* d2, double best, int length )
{
double total_cost = 0;
assert( length % 4 == 0 );
for( int i = 0; i < length; i += 4 )
{
double t0 = d1[i] - d2[i];
double t1 = d1[i+1] - d2[i+1];
double t2 = d1[i+2] - d2[i+2];
double t3 = d1[i+3] - d2[i+3];
total_cost += t0*t0 + t1*t1 + t2*t2 + t3*t3;
if( total_cost > best )
break;
}
return total_cost;
}
int
naiveNearestNeighbor( const float* vec, int laplacian,
const CvSeq* model_keypoints,
const CvSeq* model_descriptors )
{
int length = (int)(model_descriptors->elem_size/sizeof(float));
int i, neighbor = -1;
double d, dist1 = 1e6, dist2 = 1e6;
CvSeqReader reader, kreader;
cvStartReadSeq( model_keypoints, &kreader, 0 );
cvStartReadSeq( model_descriptors, &reader, 0 );
for( i = 0; i < model_descriptors->total; i++ )
{
const CvSURFPoint* kp = (const CvSURFPoint*)kreader.ptr;
const float* mvec = (const float*)reader.ptr;
CV_NEXT_SEQ_ELEM( kreader.seq->elem_size, kreader );
CV_NEXT_SEQ_ELEM( reader.seq->elem_size, reader );
if( laplacian != kp->laplacian )
continue;
d = compareSURFDescriptors( vec, mvec, dist2, length );
if( d < dist1 )
{
dist2 = dist1;
dist1 = d;
neighbor = i;
}
else if ( d < dist2 )
dist2 = d;
}
dis=dis+dist1;
/*We are finding the distance from every descriptor of probe image to every descriptor of the galley image. Finally in the findpairs function, we divide this distance with the total no. of descriptors to get the average of all the distances
*/
if ( dist1 < 0.6*dist2 )
return neighbor;
return -1;
}
void
findPairs( const CvSeq* objectKeypoints, const CvSeq* objectDescriptors,
const CvSeq* imageKeypoints, const CvSeq* imageDescriptors, vector<int>& ptpairs )
{
int i;
CvSeqReader reader, kreader;
cvStartReadSeq( objectKeypoints, &kreader );
cvStartReadSeq( objectDescriptors, &reader );
ptpairs.clear();
for( i = 0; i < objectDescriptors->total; i++ )
{
const CvSURFPoint* kp = (const CvSURFPoint*)kreader.ptr;
const float* descriptor = (const float*)reader.ptr;
CV_NEXT_SEQ_ELEM( kreader.seq->elem_size, kreader );
CV_NEXT_SEQ_ELEM( reader.seq->elem_size, reader );
int nearest_neighbor = naiveNearestNeighbor( descriptor, kp->laplacian, imageKeypoints, imageDescriptors);
//For every descriptor, we are trying to find it's nearest neighbour in the probe image
if( nearest_neighbor >= 0 )
{
ptpairs.push_back(i);
ptpairs.push_back(nearest_neighbor);
}
}
printf("
%lf
",(dis/objectDescriptors->total));////Here's where I am outputting the distance between the images
/*Dileep: If you are using this for recognition, write this distance to a file along with the name of the image you are matching against. After doing this for several images, you can then sort them in ascending order to find the best possible match - the one with the smallest distance. Here, I am outputting the distance to stdout
*/
}
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
const char* object_filename = argc == 3 ? argv[1] : "box.png";
const char* scene_filename = argc == 3 ? argv[2] : "box_in_scene.png";
//Dileep:When you are excuting the object file, please write Command:./objectfile probe_image Gallery_image
/*Dileep:
Probe_image - This is the image for which you need to find the match
Gallery_image - This is one of the set of images, you use for matching
You keep the same probe image same, repeatedly changing the gallery image and outputting the distance in the format
<Gallery_name distance> into a file
Finally you can sort the distances in ascending order. And the one with the shortest distance - You can output it's name as the best possible match
It may become tedious to continually write the same command multiple times, changing the gallery file name. Try to use shell script with a for loop
*/
CvMemStorage* storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
IplImage* object = cvLoadImage( object_filename, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE );
IplImage* image = cvLoadImage( scene_filename, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE );
if( !object || !image )
{
fprintf( stderr, "Can not load %s and/or %s
"
"Usage: find_obj [<object_filename> <scene_filename>]
",
object_filename, scene_filename );
exit(-1);
}
CvSeq *objectKeypoints = 0, *objectDescriptors = 0;
CvSeq *imageKeypoints = 0, *imageDescriptors = 0;
int i;
CvSURFParams params = cvSURFParams(500, 1);
double tt = (double)cvGetTickCount();
cvExtractSURF( object, 0, &objectKeypoints, &objectDescriptors, storage, params );
printf("Object Descriptors: %d
", objectDescriptors->total);
cvExtractSURF( image, 0, &imageKeypoints, &imageDescriptors, storage, params );
printf("Image Descriptors: %d
", imageDescriptors->total);
tt = (double)cvGetTickCount() - tt;
printf( "Extraction time = %gms
", tt/(cvGetTickFrequency()*1000.));
vector<int> ptpairs;
findPairs( objectKeypoints, objectDescriptors, imageKeypoints, imageDescriptors, ptpairs );
return 0;
}
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