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SuperPoint

Overview

The SuperPoint model was proposed in SuperPoint: Self-Supervised Interest Point Detection and Description by Daniel DeTone, Tomasz Malisiewicz and Andrew Rabinovich.

This model is the result of a self-supervised training of a fully-convolutional network for interest point detection and description. The model is able to detect interest points that are repeatable under homographic transformations and provide a descriptor for each point. The use of the model in its own is limited, but it can be used as a feature extractor for other tasks such as homography estimation, image matching, etc.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

This paper presents a self-supervised framework for training interest point detectors and descriptors suitable for a large number of multiple-view geometry problems in computer vision. As opposed to patch-based neural networks, our fully-convolutional model operates on full-sized images and jointly computes pixel-level interest point locations and associated descriptors in one forward pass. We introduce Homographic Adaptation, a multi-scale, multi-homography approach for boosting interest point detection repeatability and performing cross-domain adaptation (e.g., synthetic-to-real). Our model, when trained on the MS-COCO generic image dataset using Homographic Adaptation, is able to repeatedly detect a much richer set of interest points than the initial pre-adapted deep model and any other traditional corner detector. The final system gives rise to state-of-the-art homography estimation results on HPatches when compared to LIFT, SIFT and ORB.

Demo notebook

A demo notebook showcasing inference + visualization with SuperPoint can be found here.

How to use

Here is a quick example of using the model to detect interest po

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