3D Trajectory Reconstruction of Moving Points Based on a Monocular Camera

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Hauptverfasser: Huang, Huayu, Guan, Banglei, Shang, Yang, Yu, Qifeng
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author Huang, Huayu
Guan, Banglei
Shang, Yang
Yu, Qifeng
author_facet Huang, Huayu
Guan, Banglei
Shang, Yang
Yu, Qifeng
contents The motion measurement of point targets constitutes a fundamental problem in photogrammetry, with extensive applications across various engineering domains. Reconstructing a point's 3D motion just from the images captured by only a monocular camera is unfeasible without prior assumptions. Under limited observation conditions such as insufficient observations, long distance, and high observation error of platform, the least squares estimation faces the issue of ill-conditioning. This paper presents an algorithm for reconstructing 3D trajectories of moving points using a monocular camera. The motion of the points is represented through temporal polynomials. Ridge estimation is introduced to mitigate the issues of ill-conditioning caused by limited observation conditions. Then, an automatic algorithm for determining the order of the temporal polynomials is proposed. Furthermore, the definition of reconstructability for temporal polynomials is proposed to describe the reconstruction accuracy quantitatively. The simulated and real-world experimental results demonstrate the feasibility, accuracy, and efficiency of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle 3D Trajectory Reconstruction of Moving Points Based on a Monocular Camera
Huang, Huayu
Guan, Banglei
Shang, Yang
Yu, Qifeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The motion measurement of point targets constitutes a fundamental problem in photogrammetry, with extensive applications across various engineering domains. Reconstructing a point's 3D motion just from the images captured by only a monocular camera is unfeasible without prior assumptions. Under limited observation conditions such as insufficient observations, long distance, and high observation error of platform, the least squares estimation faces the issue of ill-conditioning. This paper presents an algorithm for reconstructing 3D trajectories of moving points using a monocular camera. The motion of the points is represented through temporal polynomials. Ridge estimation is introduced to mitigate the issues of ill-conditioning caused by limited observation conditions. Then, an automatic algorithm for determining the order of the temporal polynomials is proposed. Furthermore, the definition of reconstructability for temporal polynomials is proposed to describe the reconstruction accuracy quantitatively. The simulated and real-world experimental results demonstrate the feasibility, accuracy, and efficiency of the proposed method.
title 3D Trajectory Reconstruction of Moving Points Based on a Monocular Camera
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19689