TY - CONF AU - Jose Carlos Rubio AU - Joan Serrat AU - Antonio Lopez AU - N. Paragios A2 - ICPR PY - 2012// TI - Image Contextual Representation and Matching through Hierarchies and Higher Order Graphs BT - 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition SP - 2664 EP - 2667 N2 - We present a region matching algorithm which establishes correspondences between regions from two segmented images. An abstract graph-based representation conceals the image in a hierarchical graph, exploiting the scene properties at two levels. First, the similarity and spatial consistency of the image semantic objects is encoded in a graph of commute times. Second, the cluttered regions of the semantic objects are represented with a shape descriptor. Many-to-many matching of regions is specially challenging due to the instability of the segmentation under slight image changes, and we explicitly handle it through high order potentials. We demonstrate the matching approach applied to images of world famous buildings, captured under different conditions, showing the robustness of our method to large variations in illumination and viewpoint. SN - 1051-4651 SN - 978-1-4673-2216-4 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6460714&tag=1 L1 - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/rsl2012f.pdf N1 - ADAS ID - Jose Carlos Rubio2012 ER -