基于嵌入式的机器人视觉伺服寻迹系统研究-Efficient Algorithms for Image Template and Dictionary Matching.pdf

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 12, 81–90 (2000) c 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Efficient Algorithms for Image Template and Dictionary Matching SUNG-HYUK CHA Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo scha@cse.buffalo.edu Abstract. Given a large text image and a small template image, the Template Matching Problem is that of finding every location within the text which looks like the pattern. This problem, which has received attention for low- level image processing, has been formalized by defining a distance metric between arrays of pixels and finding all subarrays of the large image which are within some threshold distance of the template. These so-called metric methods tends to be too slow for many applications, since evaluating the distance function can take too much time. We present a method for quickly eliminating most positions of the text from consideration as possible matches. The remaining candidate positions are then evaluated one by one against the template for a match. We are still guaranteed to find all matching positions, and our method gives significant speed-ups. Finally, we consider the problem of matching a dictionary of templates against a text. We present methods which are much faster than matching the templates individually against the input image. Keywords: template matching, metrics similarity, filtration, dictionary matching I. Introduction the M-difference between Sij and T as M T Sij