Soft decision optimization method for robust fundamental matrix estimation

It is easy to show that in computer vision, there is the closely coupled relation between feature matching and fundamental matrix estimation. The widely used robust methods such as RANSAC and its improved versions separately deal with feature matching and fundamental matrix estimation. Although thes...

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Published in:Machine vision and applications 2019-06, Vol.30 (4), p.657-669
Main Authors: Xiao, Chun-Bao, Feng, Da-Zheng, Yuan, Ming-Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Communications Engineering
Computer Science
Computer vision
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Matching
Methods
Networks
Optimization
Original Paper
Outliers (statistics)
Pattern Recognition
Robustness
Vision systems
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Summary:It is easy to show that in computer vision, there is the closely coupled relation between feature matching and fundamental matrix estimation. The widely used robust methods such as RANSAC and its improved versions separately deal with feature matching and fundamental matrix estimation. Although these methods are simple to implement, their performance may be relatively low in the presence of gross outliers. By exploiting such coupled relation, the soft decision optimization method is proposed in this paper to estimate the fundamental matrix and find the inlier correspondence set together. Combing feature matching and fundamental matrix estimation, a soft decision objective function is developed to automatically remove the interference of the outliers in the candidate correspondence set. Moreover, an efficient expectation–maximization algorithm is established to find the solution to the fundamental matrix and the inlier correspondence set. Experiments on both synthesized data and real images show that the proposed method can cope with large noise and high ratio of outliers and is superior to some state-of-the-art robust methods in precision, recall, and residual error.
ISSN:0932-8092
1432-1769
DOI:10.1007/s00138-019-01019-7