RoSe: Rotation-Invariant Sequence-Aware Consensus for Robust Correspondence Pruning

Correspondence pruning has recently drawn considerable attention as a crucial step in image matching. Existing methods typically achieve this by constructing neighborhoods for each feature point and imposing neighborhood consistency. However, the nearest-neighbor matching strategy often results in numerous many-to-one correspondences, thereby reducing the reliability of neighborhood information. Furthermore, the smoothness constraint fails in cases of large-scale rotations, leading to misjudgments. To address the above issues, this paper proposes a novel robust correspondence pruning method termed RoSe, which is based on rotation-invariant sequence-aware consensus. We formulate the correspondence pruning problem as a mathematical optimization problem and derive a closed-form solution. Specifically, we devise a rectified local neighborhood construction strategy that effectively enlarges the distribution between inliers and outliers. Meanwhile, to accommodate large-scale rotation, we propose a relative sequence-aware consistency as an alternative to existing smoothness constraints, which can better characterize the topological structure of inliers. Experimental results on image matching and registration tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Robustness analysis involving diverse feature descriptors and varying rotation degrees further showcases the efficacy of our method.