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MATCHA:Towards Matching Anything

arXiv 2501.14945 ↗First posted 24 Jan 2025cs.CVcited by 12

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Abstract (arXiv)

Establishing correspondences across images is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, underpinning tasks like Structure-from-Motion, image editing, and point tracking. Traditional methods are often specialized for specific correspondence types, geometric, semantic, or temporal, whereas humans naturally identify alignments across these domains. Inspired by this flexibility, we propose MATCHA, a unified feature model designed to ``rule them all'', establishing robust correspondences across diverse matching tasks. Building on insights that diffusion model features can encode multiple correspondence types, MATCHA augments this capacity by dynamically fusing high-level semantic and low-level geometric features through an attention-based module, creating expressive, versatile, and robust features. Additionally, MATCHA integrates object-level features from DINOv2 to further boost generalization, enabling a single feature capable of matching anything. Extensive experiments validate that MATCHA consistently surpasses state-of-the-art methods across geometric, semantic, and temporal matching tasks, setting a new foundation for a unified approach for the fundamental correspondence problem in computer vision. To the best of our knowledge, MATCHA is the first approach that is able to effectively tackle diverse matching tasks with a single unified feature.

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  1. 2025Towards Robust Semantic Correspondence: A Benchmark and Insights
  2. 2025Mind the Gap: Aligning Vision Foundation Models to Image Feature Matching
  3. 2026A2BM: Alignment-Aware Bridge Matching for Image-to-Image Translation
  4. 2025JamMa: Ultra-lightweight Local Feature Matching with Joint Mamba
  5. 2026Gromov Wasserstein Optimal Transport for Semantic Correspondences
  6. 2025Diff-Reg v2: Diffusion-Based Matching Matrix Estimation for Image Matching and 3D Registration
  7. 2026Beyond Point-Wise Matching: Structural Representation Alignment for Accelerating Diffusion Transformers
  8. 2026SOCO: Benchmarking Semantic Object Correspondence in Vision Foundation Models