TransMatch: Employing Bridging Strategy to Overcome Large Deformation for Feature Matching in Gastroscopy Scenario

Feature matching is widely applied in the image processing field. However, both traditional feature matching methods and previous deep learning-based methods struggle to accurately match the features with severe deformations and large displacements, particularly in gastroscopy scenario. To fill this gap, an effective feature matching framework named TransMatch is proposed, which addresses the largely displacements issue by matching features with global information leveraged via Transformer structure. To address the severe deformation of features, an effective bridging strategy with a novel bidirectional quadratic interpolation network is employed. This bridging strategy decomposes and simplifies the matching of features undergoing severe deformations. A deblurring module for gastroscopy scenario is specifically designed to address the potential blurriness. Experiments have illustrated that proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance of feature matching and frame interpolation in gastroscopy scenario. Moreover, a large-scale gastroscopy dataset is also constructed for multiple tasks.