Robust Rotation and Translation Estimation in Multiview Reconstruction

It is known that the problem of multiview reconstruction can be solved in two steps: first estimate camera rotations and then translations using them. This paper presents new robust techniques for both of these steps, (i) Given pair-wise relative rotations, global camera rotations are estimated line...

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Main Authors: Martinec, D., Pajdla, T.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Buildings
Cameras
Cybernetics
Geometry
Image reconstruction
Jacobian matrices
Layout
Least squares approximation
Linear programming
Robustness
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Summary:It is known that the problem of multiview reconstruction can be solved in two steps: first estimate camera rotations and then translations using them. This paper presents new robust techniques for both of these steps, (i) Given pair-wise relative rotations, global camera rotations are estimated linearly in least squares, (ii) Camera translations are estimated using a standard technique based on Second Order Cone Programming. Robustness is achieved by using only a subset of points according to a new criterion that diminishes the risk of choosing a mismatch. It is shown that only four points chosen in a special way are sufficient to represent a pairwise reconstruction almost equally as all points. This leads to a significant speedup. In image sets with repetitive or similar structures, non-existent epipolar geometries may be found. Due to them, some rotations and consequently translations may be estimated incorrectly. It is shown that iterative removal of pairwise reconstructions with the largest residual and reregistration removes most non-existent epipolar geometries. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated on difficult wide base-line image sets.
ISSN:1063-6919
DOI:10.1109/CVPR.2007.383115