Coherency Sensitive Hashing (CSH) extends Locality Sensitivity Hashing  
(LSH) and PatchMatch to quickly find matching patches between two  
images. LSH relies on hashing, which maps similar patches to the same  
bin, in order to find matching patches. PatchMatch, on the other hand,  
relies on the observation that images are coherent, to propagate good  
matches to their neighbors, in the image plane. It uses random patch  
assignment to seed the initial matching. CSH relies on hashing to seed  
the initial patch matching and on image coherence to propagate good  
matches. In addition, hashing lets it propagate information between  
patches with similar appearance (i.e., map to the same bin). This way,  
information is propagated much faster because it can use similarity in  
appearance space or neighborhood in the image plane. As a result, CSH  
is at least three to four times faster than PatchMatch and more  
accurate, especially in textured regions, where reconstruction  
artifacts are most noticeable to the human eye. We verified CSH on a  
new, large scale, data set of 133 image pairs.
Coherency Sensitive Hashing (CSH) extends Locality Sensitivity Hashing  
(LSH) and PatchMatch to quickly find matching patches between two  
images. LSH relies on hashing, which maps similar patches to the same  
bin, in order to find matching patches. PatchMatch, on the other hand,  
relies on the observation that images are coherent, to propagate good  
matches to their neighbors, in the image plane. It uses random patch  
assignment to seed the initial matching. CSH relies on hashing to seed  
the initial patch matching and on image coherence to propagate good  
matches. In addition, hashing lets it propagate information between  
patches with similar appearance (i.e., map to the same bin). This way,  
information is propagated much faster because it can use similarity in  
appearance space or neighborhood in the image plane. As a result, CSH  
is at least three to four times faster than PatchMatch and more  
accurate, especially in textured regions, where reconstruction  
artifacts are most noticeable to the human eye. We verified CSH on a  
new, large scale, data set of 133 image pairs.
joint work with Simon Korman.