Petr Doubek, Jirí Matas, Michal Perdoch, and Ondrej Chum. Image matching and retrieval by repetitive patterns. In Roy Sterritt, editor, ICPR'2010: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages 3195-3198, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, USA, August 2010. IEEE Computer Society.
Detection of repetitive patterns in images has been studied for a long time in computer vision. This paper discusses a method for representing a lattice or line pattern by shift-invariant descriptor of the repeating element. The descriptor overcomes shift ambiguity and can be matched between different a views. The pattern matching is then demonstrated in retrieval experiment, where different images of the same buildings are retrieved solely by repetitive patterns.
