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Scale-aware co-visible region detection for image matching

Pan, Xu
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Xia, Zimin  
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Zheng, Xianwei
November 1, 2025
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Matching images with significant scale differences remains a persistent challenge in photogrammetry and remote sensing. The scale discrepancy often degrades appearance consistency and introduces uncertainty in keypoint localization. While existing methods address scale variation through scale pyramids or scale-aware training, matching under significant scale differences remains an open challenge. To overcome this, we address the scale difference issue by detecting co-visible regions between image pairs and propose SCoDe (Scale-aware Co-visible region Detector), which both identifies co-visible regions and aligns their scales for highly robust, hierarchical point correspondence matching. Specifically, SCoDe employs a novel Scale Head Attention mechanism to map and correlate features across multiple scale subspaces, and uses a learnable query to aggregate scale-aware information of both images for co-visible region detection. In this way, correspondences can be established in a coarse-to-fine hierarchy, thereby mitigating semantic and localization uncertainties. Extensive experiments on three challenging datasets demonstrate that SCoDe outperforms state-of-the-art methods, improving the precision of a modern local feature matcher by 8.41%. Notably, SCoDe shows a clear advantage when handling images with drastic scale variations. Code is publicly available at github.com/Geo-Tell/SCoDe.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.08.015
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105014121387

Author(s)
Pan, Xu

Wuhan University

Xia, Zimin  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Zheng, Xianwei

Wuhan University

Date Issued

2025-11-01

Published in
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Volume

229

Start page

122

End page

137

Subjects

Co-visible region detection

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Correspondence estimation

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Image matching

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Scale variation

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Structure from motion

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
VITA  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

National Key R&D Program of China

2024YFC3811000

NSFC-projects

42471447

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China

2042022dx0001

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September 8, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/253788
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