Elastic matching explained

Elastic matching is one of the pattern recognition techniques in computer science. Elastic matching (EM) is also known as deformable template, flexible matching, or nonlinear template matching.^[1]

Elastic matching can be defined as an optimization problem of two-dimensional warping specifying corresponding pixels between subjected images.

References

• Uchida . Seiichi . A Survey of Elastic Matching Techniques for Handwritten Character Recognition . IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E88-D. 8. August 2005. 1781–1790 . 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.8.1781 . 2005IEITI..88.1781U .

See also

• Dynamic time warping
• Graphical time warping

Notes and References

1. 1612.02190. Talmi. Itamar. Template Matching with Deformable Diversity Similarity. Mechrez. Roey. Zelnik-Manor. Lihi. cs.CV. 2016.