Summary

This repository serves as a comprehensive, curated bibliographic list of academic papers focused on image matching. It aims to provide researchers and practitioners with an organized overview of the field, covering foundational surveys, benchmarking studies, and advancements in detector learning, descriptor learning, and feature matching techniques. The benefit lies in consolidating a vast body of literature, facilitating easier navigation and discovery of relevant research.

How It Works

The list is systematically organized into categories: Surveys, Benchmarks, Detector Learning, Descriptor Learning, Detector & Descriptor Learning, Feature Matching, and Others. Each entry includes publication year, venue, paper title, and, where available, links to associated repositories, code, project pages, or supplementary materials. This structure allows users to quickly identify papers within specific sub-domains of image matching.

Quick Start & Requirements

This repository is a curated list of academic papers and does not contain executable code or software requiring installation. Therefore, there are no direct quick start commands, prerequisites, or setup requirements.

Highlighted Details

• Extensive coverage of image matching research from 2005 to 2026.
• Categorization into key sub-fields including surveys, benchmarks, detector learning, descriptor learning, and feature matching.
• Inclusion of direct links to associated code repositories, project pages, and supplementary materials for many listed papers.

Maintenance & Community

The project is maintained through community contributions. Users are encouraged to report bugs or suggest overlooked papers via GitHub issues or pull requests, fostering a collaborative curation effort.

Licensing & Compatibility

The repository's README does not specify a software license. Users should assume all rights are reserved by the respective paper authors and publishers, and consult individual paper licenses for usage. Compatibility for commercial use or closed-source linking is not addressed.

Limitations & Caveats

As a bibliographic list, this repository does not provide direct access to the full text of the papers or any executable software. Its scope is limited to the papers curated by the maintainers and contributors, and completeness is subjective. The availability and maintenance of linked code repositories are external to this project.