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One of the most important processes related to structural pattern recognition is to compare the involved objects through representing them as attributed graphs and using error-tolerant graph matching methods. To do so, it is needed a first step to extract the graphs given the original objects and deduct the whole attribute values of nodes and edges. Depending on the application, there are several methods to obtain these graphs and so, the object at hand can be represented by several graphs, not only with different nodes and edges but also with different attribute domains. In the case that we have several graphs to represent the same object, we can deduct several correspondences between graphs. In this work, we want to solve the problem of having these correspondences by exploding this diversity to announce a final correspondence in which the incongruences introduced in the graph extraction and also the graph matching could be reduced. We present a consensus method which, given two correspondences between two pairs of attributed graphs generated by separate entities and with different attribute domains, enounces a final correspondence consensus considering the existence of outliers. Our method is based on a generalisation of the Bipartite graph matching algorithm that minimises the Edit cost of the consensus correspondence while forcing (to the most) to be the mean correspondence of the two original correspondences.
This research is supported by the Spanish CICYT project DPI2013-42458-P, by project TIN2013-47245-C2-2-R and by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologías (CONACyT Mexico)
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Moreno-García, C.F., Serratosa, F., Cortés, X. (2015). Consensus of Two Graph Correspondences Through a Generalisation of the Bipartite Graph Matching. In: Liu, CL., Luo, B., Kropatsch, W., Cheng, J. (eds) Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition. GbRPR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18224-7_9
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