18836860. IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM (NEC Corporation)
IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
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IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18836860 titled 'IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
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An image matching apparatus acquires a ground-view image, an aerial-view image, and class information. The class information indicates a distribution of classes of objects on the ground-view image, the aerial-view image, or both. The image matching apparatus-extracts features from the ground-view image to compute a ground image feature, extracts features from the aerial-view image to compute an aerial image feature, and extracts features from the class information to compute a class feature. The image matching apparatus determines whether or not the ground-view image and the aerial-view image match each other based on the ground image feature, the aerial image feature, and the class feature.