Consistent and Optimal Solution to Camera Motion Estimation

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Auteurs principaux: Zeng, Guangyang, Zeng, Qingcheng, Li, Xinghan, Mu, Biqiang, Chen, Jiming, Shi, Ling, Wu, Junfeng
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author Zeng, Guangyang
Zeng, Qingcheng
Li, Xinghan
Mu, Biqiang
Chen, Jiming
Shi, Ling
Wu, Junfeng
author_facet Zeng, Guangyang
Zeng, Qingcheng
Li, Xinghan
Mu, Biqiang
Chen, Jiming
Shi, Ling
Wu, Junfeng
contents Given 2D point correspondences between an image pair, inferring the camera motion is a fundamental issue in the computer vision community. The existing works generally set out from the epipolar constraint and estimate the essential matrix, which is not optimal in the maximum likelihood (ML) sense. In this paper, we dive into the original measurement model with respect to the rotation matrix and normalized translation vector and formulate the ML problem. We then propose a two-step algorithm to solve it: In the first step, we estimate the variance of measurement noises and devise a consistent estimator based on bias elimination; In the second step, we execute a one-step Gauss-Newton iteration on manifold to refine the consistent estimate. We prove that the proposed estimate owns the same asymptotic statistical properties as the ML estimate: The first is consistency, i.e., the estimate converges to the ground truth as the point number increases; The second is asymptotic efficiency, i.e., the mean squared error of the estimate converges to the theoretical lower bound -- Cramer-Rao bound. In addition, we show that our algorithm has linear time complexity. These appealing characteristics endow our estimator with a great advantage in the case of dense point correspondences. Experiments on both synthetic data and real images demonstrate that when the point number reaches the order of hundreds, our estimator outperforms the state-of-the-art ones in terms of estimation accuracy and CPU time.
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Zeng, Guangyang
Zeng, Qingcheng
Li, Xinghan
Mu, Biqiang
Chen, Jiming
Shi, Ling
Wu, Junfeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Given 2D point correspondences between an image pair, inferring the camera motion is a fundamental issue in the computer vision community. The existing works generally set out from the epipolar constraint and estimate the essential matrix, which is not optimal in the maximum likelihood (ML) sense. In this paper, we dive into the original measurement model with respect to the rotation matrix and normalized translation vector and formulate the ML problem. We then propose a two-step algorithm to solve it: In the first step, we estimate the variance of measurement noises and devise a consistent estimator based on bias elimination; In the second step, we execute a one-step Gauss-Newton iteration on manifold to refine the consistent estimate. We prove that the proposed estimate owns the same asymptotic statistical properties as the ML estimate: The first is consistency, i.e., the estimate converges to the ground truth as the point number increases; The second is asymptotic efficiency, i.e., the mean squared error of the estimate converges to the theoretical lower bound -- Cramer-Rao bound. In addition, we show that our algorithm has linear time complexity. These appealing characteristics endow our estimator with a great advantage in the case of dense point correspondences. Experiments on both synthetic data and real images demonstrate that when the point number reaches the order of hundreds, our estimator outperforms the state-of-the-art ones in terms of estimation accuracy and CPU time.
title Consistent and Optimal Solution to Camera Motion Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01174